CVE-2022-44002
Published: 16 November 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-44002 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Backclick Backclick. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-46965
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in BACKCLICK Professional 5.9.63. Due to insufficient output encoding of user-supplied data, the web application is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) at various locations.
- 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.