CVE-2022-1408 VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS < 1.5.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Admin users can inject malicious scripts into VikBooking settings, leading to stored XSS attacks against other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-1408?
CVE-2022-1408 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS, published on 16 May 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin before 1.5.8 does not escape various settings before outputting them in attributes, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1408?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Vikwp Hotel Booking Engine \& Pms.
How do I fix CVE-2022-1408?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1408 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-2022-1408 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1408 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qgp9-pp66-7qwp.