WP Maintenance <= 6.0.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting

5.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-30536
CVSS 5.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 28, 2022
Last Updated June 6, 2024
Researcher RE-ALTER

Description

The WP Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 6.0.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Maintenance

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-maintenance (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 6.0.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 6.0.7
Patched Version
  • 6.0.8

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