wpDiscuz before 7.6.47 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that allows attackers to delete all comments associated with an email address by crafting a malicious GET request with a valid HMAC key. Attackers can embed the deletecomments action URL in image tags or other resources to trigger permanent deletion of comments without user confirmation or POST-based CSRF protection.
CVE-2026-22202
Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-03-13. NVD baseline CVSS 6.5; sources differ by 1.6.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 8.1(medium)
- EG Risk
- 41(Track)EG Risk 41/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity81% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 13, 2026
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (3)
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/#developers
- disclosure@vulncheckhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wpdiscuz-before-destructive-get-action-deletes-all-comments-by-email
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 5× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-01 04:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-30 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-27 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-27 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
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