CVE-2022-1028

CVE-2022-1028: WordPress Security < 4.2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown
Product WordPress Security – Firewall, Malware Scanner, Secure Login and Backup
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published June 27, 2022
Last update August 2, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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)

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2022 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated