🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2016-15041

HIGH 7.2

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

CVSS Score
7.2
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor mainwp
Product mainwp dashboard: self-hosted wordpress management for agencies
Published Oct 16, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

mainwp / MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies
0 < 3.1.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b1445f-3b6b-40fa-9a12-f55d63668dda?source=cve klikki.fi: https://klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html acunetix.com: https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-mainwp-dashboard-cross-site-scripting-3-1-2/ web.archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20191101060009/https%3A//klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html

Credits

Jouko Pynnöne