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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2022-1029 json

Limit Login Attempts < 4.0.72 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

published 2022-06-27 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-24378

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

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)

Patch / fix

  • miniorange limit_login_attempts 4.0.72

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template Limit Login Attempts - Stored Cross-Site Scripting nuclei detection template
  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0e74eeb4-89e2-4873-904f-ad4f25c4a8ba referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Unknown Limit Login Attempts

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.