MiniOrange Limit Login Attempts <= 4.0.72 - Administrator+ Cross-Site Scripting

4.8
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1029
CVSS 4.8 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 6, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Niraj Mahajan

Description

The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin before 4.0.72 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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Vulnerability Details for Limit Login Attempts

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug miniorange-limit-login-attempts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.0.72, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.71
Patched Version
  • 4.0.72

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