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CVE-2023-6164 Details

Description

The MainWP Dashboard – WordPress Manager for Multiple Websites Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSS Injection via the ‘newColor’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary CSS values into the site tags.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.8 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:2.2 LOWVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/mainwp/tags/4.5.1.2&old=2996628&new_path=/mainwp/tags/4.5.1.3&new=2996628&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=	CVE	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73980a90-bb17-46e4-a0ea-691f80500fe3?source=cve	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/mainwp/tags/4.5.1.2&old=2996628&new_path=/mainwp/tags/4.5.1.3&new=2996628&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=	[email protected]	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/73980a90-bb17-46e4-a0ea-691f80500fe3?source=cve	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-74	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')	[email protected]
CWE-79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mainwp mainwp	<= 4.5.1.2
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mainwp:mainwp::::::wordpress::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 8, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 1, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Nov 22, 2023	New CVE Received	[email protected]