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CVE-2016-15041

HIGH

7.2

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.2

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published10/16/2024

Last Modified12/23/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mainwp:mainwp_dashboard

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

References

https://klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html(security@wordfence.com)

https://web.archive.org/web/20191101060009/https%3A//klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-mainwp-dashboard-cross-site-scripting-3-1-2/(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b1445f-3b6b-40fa-9a12-f55d63668dda?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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