Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-46889

Medium

Published: 19 January 2023

Published
19 January 2023
Modified
03 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0025 49.0th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-46889 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Nexusphp Nexusphp. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in NexusPHP before 1.7.33 allows remote authenticated attackers to permanently inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the title parameter used in /subtitles.php.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

nexusphp
nexusphp
≤ 1.7.33

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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