CVE-2022-3144: Wordfence Security

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 7.6.0 via a setting on the options page due to insufficient escaping on the stored value. This makes it possible for authenticated users, with administrative privileges, to inject malicious web scripts into the setting that executes whenever a user accesses a page displaying the affected setting on sites running a vulnerable version.

Affected products

• Wordfence Wordfence Security: up to and including 7.6.0

Published 2022-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.