CVE-2022-4957
Published: 03 December 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-4957 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Librespeed Speedtest. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked in the top 31.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-52210
Vulnerability details
A vulnerability was found in librespeed speedtest up to 5.2.4. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file results/stats.php. The manipulation of the argument id leads to cross site scripting. The…
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attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 5.2.5 is able to address this issue. The patch is named a85f2c086f3449dffa8fe2edb5e2ef3ee72dc0e9. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-246643.
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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.