CVE-2021-25101: Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall Project Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall Project Anti-Malware Security And Brute-Force Firewall: before 4.20.94 (fixed in 4.20.94)

Published 2022-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.