CVE-2022-30960
Published: 17 May 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-30960 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Jenkins Application Detector. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 29.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Jenkins Application Detector Plugin 1.0.8 and earlier contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to escape the names of Chois Application Version parameters when rendering parameter views. This issue is tracked as CVE-2022-30960 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.4 and is classified under CWE-79.
Attackers who possess Item/Configure permission can supply malicious parameter names that are stored and later executed in the browsers of other users who view the affected configuration pages, resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality and integrity with a required user interaction.
The Jenkins security advisory published on 2022-05-17 at the referenced URL details the issue and corresponding fixes for the plugin.
EPSS for this CVE rose materially from a low baseline to a peak of 0.3160 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current value of 0.0011, indicating that exploitation interest emerged after disclosure and that the vulnerability warrants renewed attention.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-2870
Vulnerability details
Jenkins Application Detector Plugin 1.0.8 and earlier does not escape the name of Chois Application Version parameters on views displaying parameters, 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.