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GHSA-9V6H-H8CQ-VV39

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-22 00:00 – Updated: 2022-03-01 00:00

Details

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.94 does not sanitise and escape the POST data before outputting it back in attributes of an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site scripting. Due to the presence of specific parameter value, available to admin users, this can only be exploited by an admin against another admin user.

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    "CVE-2021-25101"
  ],
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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-9v6h-h8cq-vv39",
  "modified": "2022-03-01T00:00:43Z",
  "published": "2022-02-22T00:00:27Z",
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    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25101"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fd0380c-0d1d-4380-96f0-a07be5a61eba"
    }
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CVE-2021-25101 (GCVE-0-2021-25101)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-21 10:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:56

Title

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.94 - Admin+ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

WPScan CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2070 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fd0380c-0d1d-43…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Unknown	Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall	Affected: 4.20.94 , < 4.20.94 (custom)

Credits

JrXnm

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