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WordPress Maintenance Plugin < 4.03 XSS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
3.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The WordPress plugin Maintenance is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The plugin does not sanitise or escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payload in them (even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed), which will be triggered in the frontend.
Affected Software
Affected Software
WordPress Maintenance plugin prior to version 4.03.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 4.03 or later.