CVE-2022-2599

moderate-risk
Published 2022-08-29

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

Do I need to act?

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30.9% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 69% 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 6.1/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 23/34 · High
Exploitability 16/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal