🛡️ CVE-2022-3144
🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-23
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wordfence-security 7.6.0

References

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