CVE-2016-15041

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

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

mainwp · MainWP Dashboard: Self-hosted WordPress Management for Agencies

CVSS v3.1 NVD

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v3.1 WORDFENCE

7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 71st percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2024-10-16

Updated

2026-04-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-15041.yaml

Security advisories

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191101060009/https%3A//klikki.fi/adv/mainwp.html
• https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-mainwp-dashboard-cross-site…
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b1445f-3b6b-40fa-9a12-f55d636…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry