Detections
Analytics
CVE-2023-22622
medium
Description
WordPress through 6.1.1 depends on unpredictable client visits to cause wp-cron.php execution and the resulting security updates, and the source code describes "the scenario where a site may not receive enough visits to execute scheduled tasks in a timely manner," but neither the installation guide nor the security guide mentions this default behavior, or alerts the user about security risks on installations with very few visits.
References
https://www.tenable.com/plugins/was/113449
https://wordpress.org/support/article/how-to-install-wordpress/
https://wordpress.org/about/security/
https://patchstack.com/articles/solving-unpredictable-wp-cron-problems-addressing-cve-2023-22622/
https://medium.com/%40thecpanelguy/the-nightmare-that-is-wpcron-php-ae31c1d3ae30