MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance: A security weakness
MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least administrator-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance
- Plugin slug
mainwp- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 22, 2023
This CVE was published Nov 22, 2023 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS Injection via the ‘newColor’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary CSS values into the site tags.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N