The MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Mainwp
Mainwp mainwp Dashboard
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mainwp:mainwp_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Mainwp
Mainwp mainwp Dashboard

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00775}

epss

{'score': 0.00862}


Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

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Description The MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance Plugin <= 3.1.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2024-10-16T13:00:56.836Z

Reserved: 2024-10-15T18:37:02.156Z

Link: CVE-2016-15041

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-10-16T13:00:21.003Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-10-16T07:15:04.747

Modified: 2025-12-23T15:47:06.847

Link: CVE-2016-15041

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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