CVE-2022-1029 PoC — Limit Login Attempts < 4.0.72 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1029.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title: Limit Login Attempts < 4.0.72 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2022-1029)
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)

Description

Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin < 4.0.72 contains a stored cross-site scripting caused by unsanitized and unescaped settings, letting malicious administrators inject Javascript code, exploit requires administrator privileges.

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