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High · 7.2 Scanner template Public exploit CVE-2016-15041 EUVD-2016-10785GHSA-c7x4-5776-rm5h

MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance Plugin <= 3.1.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published Oct 16, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: mainwp Product: MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies Category: Web / CMS

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mainwp MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies < 3.1.3 3.1.3

Public exploits

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Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

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Automated scanner template

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