WP Cerber Security <= 9.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 22, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024

Description

The WP Cerber Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the 'add_acl_comment' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-cerber (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 9.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 9.0
Patched Version
  • 9.1

Recent vulnerabilities in WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 WP Cerber Security <= 9.4 - IP Protection Bypass CVE-2022-4100 5.3 chihyu August 30, 2024
2 WP Cerber Security <= 9.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-4712 7.2 Ram April 19, 2023
3 WP Cerber Security <= 9.3.2 - User Enumeration Bypass via REST API CVE-2022-4417 5.3 Abdul Muneeb December 12, 2022
4 WP Cerber Security <= 9.0 - User Enumeration Bypass CVE-2022-2939 5.3 Margaux DABERT September 2, 2022
5 WP Cerber Security <= 8.9.5.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-0429 7.2 Krzysztof Zając February 14, 2022
6 WP Cerber Security < 8.9.3 - Multifactor Bypass CVE-2021-37597 9.8 August 16, 2021
7 WP Cerber < 8.9.3 - Access Bypass Control CVE-2021-37598 5.3 Aaron Carreras August 16, 2021
8 Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan < 2.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2016-10990 7.2 Gerard Arall April 1, 2016

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