CVE-2022-1029: Miniorange Limit Login Attempts

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin before 4.0.72 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, leading to malicious users with administrator privileges to store malicious Javascript code leading to Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• Miniorange Limit Login Attempts: before 4.0.72 (fixed in 4.0.72)

Published 2022-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.