What is CVE-2022-1029?

CVE-2022-1029 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Miniorange Limit Login Attempts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-06-27.

How severe is CVE-2022-1029?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-1029 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Miniorange Limit Login Attempts

CVE-2022-1029

The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin before 4.0.72 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, leading to malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.008 (54.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Miniorange Limit_login_attempts
Unknown Limit Login Attempts — versions 4.0.72

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1029?: CVE-2022-1029 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Miniorange Limit Login Attempts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-06-27.
How severe is CVE-2022-1029?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-1029 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.