ProcessWire vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Date: 2022-10
Affected: composer/processwire/processwire
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2022-40487
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

ProcessWire v3.0.200 was discovered to contain multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities via the Search Users and Search Pages function. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via injection of a crafted payload.


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