# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4qh6-wmrm-mp28

## 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

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key), CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2312?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2022-2312 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2312 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2312 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2312 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Student Result or Employee Database. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2312/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2312/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2312
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2312
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2312

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2312/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.