CVE-2022-1029

MEDIUM NUCLEI

Limit Login Attempts < 4.0.72 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Settings

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2022-1029 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

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)

Nuclei Templates (1)

Limit Login Attempts - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby theamanrawat

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0e74eeb4-89e2-4873-904f-ad4f25c4a8ba

Scores

CVSS v3 4.8
EPSS 0.0076
EPSS Percentile 50.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
miniorange/limit_login_attempts < 4.0.72
Published Jun 27, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026