CVE-2022-1028

Published Jun 27, 2022

Last updated 5 months ago

Overview

Description
The WordPress Security Firewall, Malware Scanner, Secure Login and Backup plugin before 4.2.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, leading to malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Source
contact@wpscan.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
4.8
Impact score
2.7
Exploitability score
1.7
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

contact@wpscan.com
CWE-79
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-79

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations