CVE-2022-0421

Public Exploit

Five Star Restaurant Reservations < 2.4.12 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Payment Status Update to Stored XSS

Description

The Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin before 2.4.12 does not have authorisation when changing whether a payment was successful or failed, allowing unauthenticated users to change the payment status of arbitrary bookings. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, attackers could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against a logged in admin viewing the failed payments

References

Link	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/145e8d3c-cd6f-4827-86e5-ea2d395a80b9	third party advisory vdb entry exploit technical description

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2022-0421?: CVE-2022-0421 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2022-0421?: To fix CVE-2022-0421, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2022-0421 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2022-0421 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2022-0421?: CVE-2022-0421 affects Unknown Five Star Restaurant Reservations.

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Description

Category

CWE-116 – Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

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