PT-2022-13602 · WordPress · Limit Login Attempts

Niraj Mahajan · Published 2022-06-27 · Updated 2025-12-15 · CVE-2022-1029

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.0.72

Description The issue allows malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code, leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered html is disallowed, such as in a multisite setup.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.72, update to version 4.0.72 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-1029

Affected Products

Limit Login Attempts

References · 4

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0e74eeb4-89e2-4873-904f-ad4f25c4a8ba · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1029 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1029 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/pdnuclei_bot/status/2000370244217692482 · Twitter Post