CVE-2022-25203
Published: 15 February 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-25203 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Team Views. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 44.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Jenkins Team Views Plugin 0.9.0 and earlier contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability because the plugin fails to escape team names when rendering views. The affected component is the Jenkins Team Views Plugin, which integrates with the Jenkins automation server to display grouped job information.
Attackers who possess Overall/Read permission can supply a malicious team name that is persisted and later executed in the browsers of other users who view the affected page, resulting in script execution within the Jenkins context with a CVSS score of 5.4.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-02-15 at the referenced URLs describes the issue under SECURITY-2324 and directs administrators to the corresponding plugin update that addresses the lack of output encoding.
EPSS for this CVE rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.2585 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0022, indicating that exploitation interest emerged well after the original disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-1110
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Team Views Plugin 0.9.0 and earlier does not escape team names, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Overall/Read permission.
- 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.