Gen Sato

Gen Sato is a security researcher credited with 29 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #191 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2016 and 2024. The most productive year was 2019, with 6 findings.

Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Scripting, which accounts for 16 of their findings (55%). Other recurring categories include Path Traversal, SQL Injection. The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 6.1, peaking at 9.8. Severity breakdown: 1 critical and 4 high.

The most affected software includes Ultimate Member (7), Welcart e-Commerce (4), Download Manager (2), across 16 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.

All 29 disclosed issues have since received a vendor fix. The most severe finding, "Welcart e-Commerce <= 1.8.2 - Authentication Bypass", scores 9.8 out of 10.

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Global Rank

#191

of 3,515 researchers

Vulns

29

Critical1
High4
Medium24
Low0
Affected Assets

16

16plugins
Avg CVSS

6.1

Average score of vulnerabilities

Researcher Submissions

29 records
2024-05-17 00:00CVE-2024-35162
4.9
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2023-04-06 00:00CVE-2023-29427
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2023-03-27 00:00CVE-2023-27922
4.7
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2022-11-08 00:00CVE-2022-43487
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2021-11-10 00:00CVE-2021-20840
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2021-09-13 00:00CVE-2021-20792
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2021-08-10 00:00N/A
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2021-04-27 00:00CVE-2021-20714
6.5
Medium
Gen SatoYes
2021-03-05 00:00CVE-2021-20678
8.8
High
Gen SatoYes
2020-10-21 00:00CVE-2020-5650
6.1
Medium
Gen SatoYes
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