CVE-2022-40357
Published: 20 September 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-40357 is a critical-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Zblogcn Z-Blogphp. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 14.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-43648
Vulnerability details
A security issue was discovered in Z-BlogPHP <= 1.7.2. A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the zb_users/plugin/UEditor/php/action_crawler.php file allows remote attackers to force the application to make arbitrary requests via injection of arbitrary URLs into the source parameter.
- 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 attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.