CVE-2023-1861

Limit Login Attempts vulnerability

CVSS

5.4

EPSS

28.8%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin through 1.7.2 does not sanitize and escape usernames when outputting them back in the logs dashboard, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected vendor

Limit Login Attempts Project

Affected product

Limit Login Attempts

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2023-05-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 28.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-1861

Confirm whether Limit Login Attempts Project Limit Login Attempts is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-1861.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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