CVE-2022-0421 Five Star Restaurant Reservations < 2.4.12 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Payment Status Update to Stored XSS
Unauthenticated attackers can modify payment statuses and inject scripts that execute when admins view failed payments.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-0421?
CVE-2022-0421 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Five Star Restaurant Reservations, published on 21 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin before 2.4.12 does not have authorisation when changing whether a payment was successful or failed, allowing unauthenticated users to change the payment status of arbitrary bookings. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, attackers could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against a logged in admin viewing the failed payments
Weakness: CWE-116
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0421?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations.
How do I fix CVE-2022-0421?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0421 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2022-0421 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-0421 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Five Star Restaurant Reservations
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rm3p-6j6m-68q8.