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CVE-2022-1321: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The CVE-2022-1321 affects miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin versions before 5.5.6. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on June 6, 2022, and involves a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affects administrators when unfiltered_html is disallowed, such as in multisite setups (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain plugin settings. It has been classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium), and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The CVSS 2.0 score is 3.5 (Low) with vector (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows malicious users with administrator privileges to store and execute malicious JavaScript code, particularly in environments where unfiltered_html is disallowed, such as in multisite WordPress setups (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.5.6 of the miniOrange Google Authenticator plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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