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7.2high

CVE-2016-15041

MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance Plugin <= 3.1.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published 2 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.2
v3.1 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.3%
percentile 71%
Public exploits
0
none known

The MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CISA SSVC assessment

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.34% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
CNA3.17.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA3.17.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD3.16.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • mainwp MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

  • wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b1445f-3b6b-40fa-9a12-f55d63668dda?source=cve
  • klikki.fi /adv/mainwp.html
  • acunetix.com /vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-mainwp-dashboard-cross-site-scripting-3-1-2/
  • web.archive.org /web/20191101060009/https%3A//klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html

Sources

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