CVE-2022-41679
Published: 31 October 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-41679 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Formalms Formalms. Its CVSS base score is 4.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-44864
Vulnerability details
Forma LMS version 3.1.0 and earlier are affected by an Cross-Site scripting vulnerability, that could allow a remote attacker to inject javascript code on the “back_url” parameter in appLms/index.php?modname=faq&op=play function. The exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to…
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steal the user´s cookies in order to log in to the application.
- 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.