SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-0953

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode…

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 3.01%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.01%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
3.01% probability · 87th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
download anti-malware security and brute-force firewall project/download anti-malware security and brute-force firewall
Source
contact@wpscan.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.