Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan <= 7.6.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-3144
CVSS 4.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 6, 2022
Last Updated January 11, 2024
Researcher Ori Gabriel

Description

The Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 7.6.0 via a setting on the options page due to insufficient escaping on the stored value. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with administrative privileges, to inject malicious web scripts into the setting that executes whenever a user accesses a page displaying the affected setting on sites running a vulnerable version.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wordfence (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.6.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.6.0
Patched Version
  • 7.6.1

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