Overview
- Description
- The Malware Scanner WordPress plugin before 4.5.2 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
- Analyzed
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
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:miniorange:malware_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4C5E1F3D-87E8-4080-9847-7036E208D38C",
"versionEndExcluding": "4.5.2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]