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

CVE-2022-4525

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been found in National Sleep Research Resource sleepdata.org up to 58.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 59.0.0.rc is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is da44a3893b407087829b006d09339780919714cd. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-215905 was assigned to this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • 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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