CVE-2022-28159
Published: 29 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-28159 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Tests Selector. 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
Jenkins Tests Selector Plugin 1.3.3 and earlier contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability because the Properties File Path option for Choosing Tests parameters is not escaped. The affected component is the Jenkins plugin that handles test selection configuration within Jenkins jobs.
Attackers with Item/Configure permission can supply a malicious Properties File Path value that is stored and later rendered to other users who view or interact with the job configuration, allowing execution of arbitrary script in the context of the Jenkins instance with a CVSS score of 5.4.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-03-29 and the accompanying oss-security mailing list posting describe the issue under SECURITY-2262 and direct administrators to update the plugin to a version that properly escapes the input.
The EPSS score rose from a low baseline to a peak of 0.3160 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0021, indicating that exploitation interest increased substantially after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-1512
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Tests Selector Plugin 1.3.3 and earlier does not escape the Properties File Path option for Choosing Tests parameters, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Item/Configure permission.
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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.