Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan <= 7.6.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-3144

4.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, And Login Security
Vendor
CVE Published:
23 September 2022

What is CVE-2022-3144?

The Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 7.6.0 via a setting on the options page due to insufficient escaping on the stored value. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with administrative privileges, to inject malicious web scripts into the setting that executes whenever a user accesses a page displaying the affected setting on sites running a vulnerable version.

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Affected Version(s)

Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security * <= 7.6.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Ori Gabriel
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