CVE-2023-1861: Limit Login Attempts Project Limit Login Attempts

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 28.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Limit Login Attempts WordPress plugin through 1.7.2 does not sanitize and escape usernames when outputting them back in the logs dashboard, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• Limit Login Attempts Project Limit Login Attempts: up to and including 1.7.2

Published 2023-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.