CVE-2022-0834
Published: 23 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-0834 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpamelia Amelia. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-15880
Vulnerability details
The Amelia WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping and sanitization of the lastName parameter found in the ~/src/Application/Controller/User/Customer/AddCustomerController.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts onto a pages that executes whenever a user…
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accesses the booking calendar with the date the attacker has injected the malicious payload into. This affects versions up to and including 1.0.46.
- 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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.