vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: miniorange-malware-protection: CVE-2022-1995: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 6, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The Malware Scanner WordPress plugin before 4.5.2 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-malware-protection-plugin-cve-2022-1995
Title
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