Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security, CVE-2022-3144

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-3144
Home page URL: Security reports for Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security
Application: Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security
Published on: Sep 23, 2022
Research 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 versions: max 3.8.7.
Status: vulnerable