CVE-2022-46905
Published: 12 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-46905 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Websoft Websoft Hcm. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 15.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-49685
Vulnerability details
Insufficient processing of user input in WebSoft HCM 2021.2.3.327 allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary HTML tags into the page processed by the user's browser, including scripts in the JavaScript programming language, which leads to Reflected XSS.
- 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.