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WordPress Plugin: miniorange-limit-login-attempts: CVE-2022-1029: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jun 6, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 29, 2026

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)

Solution

miniorange-limit-login-attempts-plugin-cve-2022-1029

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1029
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40e61b9f-2350-410e-bb3d-59329ac08658?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-24378
CVE-2022-1029
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-1029
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2022-24378

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