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

CVE-2022-45436

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Artica PFMS Pandora FMS v765 on all platforms, allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). As a manager privilege user , create a network map containing name as xss payload. Once created, admin user must click on the edit network maps and XSS payload will be executed, which could be used for stealing admin users cookie value.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • 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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