Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-34561

Medium

Published: 22 April 2024

Published
22 April 2024
Modified
22 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.1th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-34561 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Phpfox Phpfox. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHPFox v4.8.9 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the video description parameter.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

phpfox
phpfox
4.8.9

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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