CVE-2022-28149
Published: 29 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-28149 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Job And Node Ownership. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Jenkins Job and Node ownership Plugin 0.13.0 and earlier contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to escape the names of secondary owners. The issue is tracked as CVE-2022-28149 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4 and is classified under CWE-79.
Attackers who possess Item/Configure permission can supply crafted owner names that are persisted and later rendered for other users, resulting in script execution within the Jenkins context with limited impact to confidentiality and integrity.
The EPSS score for this CVE started low, rose materially to a peak of 0.3160 on 2025-12-11, and has since receded to 0.0021, indicating a period of increased exploitation interest well after the original disclosure. The Jenkins security advisory and associated oss-security postings provide the authoritative references for the issue.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-1578
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Job and Node ownership Plugin 0.13.0 and earlier does not escape the names of the secondary owners, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Item/Configure 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.