CVE-2022-0953

CVE-2022-0953: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.96 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown

Product Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published April 25, 2022

Last update August 2, 2024

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CVSS base score

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 25, 2022 CVE published

August 2, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0953 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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