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CVE-2022-3144: Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan <= 7.6.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 7.6.0 via a setting on the options page due to insufficient escaping on the stored value. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with administrative privileges, to inject malicious web scripts into the setting that executes whenever a user accesses a page displaying the affected setting on sites running a vulnerable version.

Affected products

• mmaunder Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security: through 7.6.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2780937%40wordfence&new=2780937%40wordfence&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833eb481-4fb4-432e-8e93-3f497ccbf1eb?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-3144
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2780937%40wordfence&new=2780937%40wordfence&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833eb481-4fb4-432e-8e93-3f497ccbf1eb?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-3144

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