Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-0421

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 21 November 2022

Published
21 November 2022
Modified
30 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0104 77.8th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-0421 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin before 2.4.12 does not have authorisation when changing whether a payment was successful or failed, allowing unauthenticated users to change the payment status of arbitrary bookings. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation…

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and escaping, attackers could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against a logged in admin viewing the failed payments

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fivestarplugins
five star restaurant reservations
≤ 2.4.12

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

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