What is CVE-2022-0421?

CVE-2022-0421 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-11-21.

How severe is CVE-2022-0421?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-0421 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations

CVE-2022-0421

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

EPSS: 0.005 (41.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Fivestarplugins Five_star_restaurant_reservations
Unknown Five Star Restaurant Reservations — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-116 — Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-0421?: CVE-2022-0421 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-11-21.
How severe is CVE-2022-0421?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-0421 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.