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CVE-2022-0953 (GCVE-0-2022-0953)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-25 15:51 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:47
VLAI
Title
Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.96 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall Affected: 4.20.96 , < 4.20.96 (custom)
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Credits
Taurus Omar
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