As immediate action, update the affected plugin. If you're unable to do so, ask your hosting provider or web developer for help.
The flaw is in the bundled brotli dependency; builds linking a system brotli older than the upstream fix (google/brotli 0ed4268) are affected too. End-of-Life Node.js lines (18.x, 20.x, 23.x, 25.x) will not receive a fix.
Attackers can run any command on the server from anywhere in the world.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
This security issue has a low severity impact and is unlikely to be exploited.
Update to version 22.23.4 or later to resolve the vulnerability.
Published by Patchstack
21 Oct, 2026