CVE-2021-25101 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-25101

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall < 4.20.94 - Admin+ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Vulnerability Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.94 does not sanitise and escape the POST data before outputting it back in attributes of an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site scripting. Due to the presence of specific parameter value, available to admin users, this can only be exploited by an admin against another admin user.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • JrXnm

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall
Vulnerable Versions:
4.20.94

Timeline

Official Publish: February 21st, 2022
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)