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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2022-39799

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An attacker with no prior authentication could craft and send malicious script to SAP GUI for HTML within Fiori Launchpad, resulting in reflected cross-site scripting attack. This could lead to stealing session information and impersonating the affected user.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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