CVE-2022-1002
Published: 18 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-1002 is a low-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Mattermost Mattermost. Its CVSS base score is 2.0 (Low).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-24352
Vulnerability details
Mattermost 6.3.0 and earlier fails to properly sanitize the HTML content in the email invitation sent to guest users, which allows registered users with special permissions to invite guest users to inject unescaped HTML content in the email invitations.
- 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.