MainWP Dashboard <= 4.5.1.2 - Authenticated(Administrator+) CSS Injection

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CVE CVE-2023-6164
CVSS Low (2.2)
Publicly Published October 20, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Hüseyin TINTAŞ
Description

The MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS Injection via the ‘newColor’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary CSS values into the site tags.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mainwp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.1.2
Patched Version
  • 4.5.1.3
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