Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <= 4.20.93 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2022-01-24 00:00
ZhongFu Su

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.20.94
Affected Version< 4.20.94
CVSS6.1Medium
CVECVE-2021-25101
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Vulnerability Overview

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.94 does not sanitise and escape the POST data before outputting it back in attributes of an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site scripting. Due to the presence of specific parameter value, available to admin users, this can only be exploited by an admin against another admin user.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 4.20.94, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

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