CVE-2022-0421
Published: 21 November 2022
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-15563
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
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.
Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.