CVE-2016-15041

moderate-risk
Published 2024-10-16

The MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 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.

Do I need to act?

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10.8% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 89% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.2/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Mainwp

References (4)

Exploit https://klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html
Third Party Advisory https://web.archive.org/web/20191101060009/https%3A//klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-mainwp-dashboard-c...
Third Party Advisory https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b1445f-3b6b-40fa-9a1...
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moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 11/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal