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Known vulnerabilities
Public vulnerability reports for Wordfence Security, the versions they affect and the version in this repository that fixes them. Watchers and accounts known to run an affected version are alerted.
2 versions in this repository are affected: 7.5.9, 7.5.8
Details
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.
Remediation: Update to version 7.6.1, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Wordfence before 7.1.14 was vulnerable in certain unusual configurations to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting, as well as full path disclosure and author name disclosure.
Remediation: Update to version 7.1.14, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘adminURL’ parameter in versions 6.1.1 through 6.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Remediation: Update to version 6.1.7, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the val parameter to whois.php.
Remediation: Update to version 5.1.5, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the '$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']' in PHP in versions up to, and including, 5.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthorized attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Remediation: Update to version 5.2.4, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence Plugin is vulnerable to multiple protection mechanism bypasses in version up to, and including, 5.2.3. These allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass exploit protection and throttling restrictions.
Remediation: Update to version 5.2.4, or a newer patched version
The Wordfence plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the '$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']' parameters in versions up to, and including, 5.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Remediation: Update to version 5.2.4, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Referer Header in versions up to, and including, 5.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Remediation: Update to version 5.2.3, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wfwhois’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Remediation: Update to version 3.8.3, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the whoisval parameter on the WordfenceWhois page to wp-admin/admin.php.
Remediation: Update to version 5.1.4, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
The Wordfence plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘email’ parameter in versions before 3.3.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Remediation: Update to version 3.3.7, or a newer patched version
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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