CVE-2022-1028 (GCVE-0-2022-1028)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-06-27 08:56
Modified
2024-08-02 23:47
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
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)
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