What is CVE-2022-25802?

CVE-2022-25802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bestpractical Request Tracker, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-07-14.

How severe is CVE-2022-25802?

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

XSS in Bestpractical Request Tracker

CVE-2022-25802

Best Practical Request Tracker (RT) before 4.4.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 allows XSS via a crafted content type for an attachment.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2022-07-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (57.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Bestpractical Request Tracker

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/index.html (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/4.4.6 (Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
docs.bestpractical.com/release-notes/rt/5.0.3 (Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25802?: CVE-2022-25802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bestpractical Request Tracker, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-07-14.
How severe is CVE-2022-25802?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.