CVE-2022-28153
Published: 29 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-28153 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Sitemonitor. 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 vulnerability is a stored cross-site scripting flaw (CWE-79) affecting the Jenkins SiteMonitor Plugin in versions 0.6 and earlier. It stems from a failure to escape URLs configured for monitored sites when those URLs are rendered inside tooltips, producing a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4.
Attackers who possess Item/Configure permission on a Jenkins item can supply malicious URLs that are stored and later executed in the browsers of other users who view the affected tooltips, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity within a changed scope.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-03-29 and the corresponding oss-security postings describe the issue and direct administrators to update the plugin to a fixed release.
The EPSS probability for CVE-2022-28153 rose materially from a low baseline to a peak of 0.2585 on 2025-12-11 before receding, indicating that exploitation interest appeared well after the original disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-1480
Vulnerability details
Jenkins SiteMonitor Plugin 0.6 and earlier does not escape URLs of sites to monitor in tooltips, 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.