CVE-2022-42753
Published: 03 November 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-42753 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Salonerp Project Salonerp. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 41.7% 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-2022-45816
Vulnerability details
SalonERP version 3.0.2 allows an external attacker to steal the cookie of arbitrary users. This is possible because the application does not correctly validate the page parameter against XSS attacks.
- 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.