miniOrange’s Malware Scanner <= 4.5.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-1995
CVSS Medium (4.8)
Publicly Published June 6, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Niraj Mahajan
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)

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug miniorange-malware-protection (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.1
Patched Version
  • 4.5.2
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