Sam Pizzey (mopman)

Sam Pizzey (mopman) is a security researcher credited with 3 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #1,017 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2015 and 2024.

Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Scripting, which accounts for 1 of their findings (33%). Other recurring categories include Deserialization Of Untrusted Data, Path Traversal. The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 8.3, peaking at 10.0. Severity breakdown: 1 critical and 1 high.

The most affected software includes Better Search Replace (1), BuddyPress (1), SlimStat Analytics (1), across 3 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.

All 3 disclosed issues have since received a vendor fix. The most severe finding, "BuddyPress 2.0 - 2.7.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion", scores 10.0 out of 10.