CVE-2022-2599

MEDIUM NUCLEI

WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <4.21.83 - Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: nuclei
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2022-2599 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.21.83 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in an admin dashboard, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Nuclei Templates (1)

WordPress Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall <4.21.83 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby ritikchaddha

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/276a7fc5-3d0d-446d-92cf-20060aecd0ef

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0098
EPSS Percentile 57.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
anti-malware_security_and_brute-force_firewall_project/anti-malware_security_and_brute-force_firewall < 4.21.83
Published Aug 29, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026