CVE-2022-0953: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.96 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

Affected products

Download Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall Project Download Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall: before 4.20.96 — fixed in 4.20.96

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Download Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall Project Download Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall 4.20.96. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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