CVE-2022-26114
Published: 06 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-26114 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortimail. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 25.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-30681
Vulnerability details
An improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability [CWE-79] in the Webmail of FortiMail before 7.2.0 may allow an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via sending specially crafted mail messages.
- 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.