CVE-2022-44004 — An issue was discovered in BACKCLICK Professional 5

An issue was discovered in BACKCLICK Professional 5.9.63. Due to insecure design or lack of authentication, unauthenticated attackers can complete the password-reset process for any account and set a new password.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in BACKCLICK Professional 5.9.63. Due to insecure design or lack of authentication, unauthenticated attackers can complete the password-reset process for any account and set a new password.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-16T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-30T14:02:19.648Z

09References

• www.syss.de — https://www.syss.de/pentest-blog/vielfaeltige-schwachstellen-in-backclick-profes…
• www.syss.de — https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2022-030.t…