CVE-2022-2312 Student Result or Employee Database < 1.7.5 - Stored Cross Site Scripting via CSRF
Attackers can inject malicious scripts via CSRF in the Student Result or Employee Database plugin, potentially compromising user sessions and data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-2312?
CVE-2022-2312 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Student Result or Employee Database, published on 22 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Student Result or Employee Database WordPress plugin before 1.7.5 does not have CSRF in its AJAX actions, allowing attackers to make logged in user with a role as low as contributor to add/edit and delete students via CSRF attacks. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site scripting
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2312?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Student Result or Employee Database Project Student Result or Employee Database.
How do I fix CVE-2022-2312?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2312 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-2022-2312 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2312 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4qh6-wmrm-mp28.