Vulnerability · Published Feb 28, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-26159
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 13.4% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The auto-completion plugin in Ametys CMS before 4.5.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read documents such as plugins/web/service/search/auto-completion/<domain>/en.xml (and similar pathnames for other languages), which contain all characters typed by all users, including the content of private pages. For example, a private page may contain usernames, e-mail addresses, and possibly passwords.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://issues.ametys.org/browse/CMS-10973 x_refsource_MISC
- https://podalirius.net/en/cves/2022-26159/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/p0dalirius/CVE-2022-26159-Ametys-Autocompletion-XML/ x_refsource_MISC