Vulnerability · Published Nov 3, 2022 · Assigned by Fluid Attacks
CVE-2022-42749
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in CandidATS. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Nuclei
Official description
CandidATS version 3.0.0 on 'page' of the 'ajax.php' resource, allows an external attacker to steal the cookie of arbitrary users. This is possible because the application application does not properly validate user input against XSS attacks.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N