{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40216 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40216 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-40216 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in WordPlus Better Messages (WordPress plugin), published on 18 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-40216 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-40216 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in WordPlus Better Messages (WordPress plugin), published on 18 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40216 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: WordPlus Better Messages (WordPress plugin). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40216/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40216/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-40216","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40216/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-40216","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j267-253q-mfm4"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can bypass messaging block restrictions in the Better Messages WordPress plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Patchstack","cpe":[{"product":"better_messages","vendor":"wordplus"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-284","name":"Improper Access Control"}],"description":"Auth. 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