What is CVE-2022-42711?

CVE-2022-42711 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Progress Whatsup Gold, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2022-10-12.

How severe is CVE-2022-42711?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.

XSS in Progress Whatsup Gold

CVE-2022-42711

In Progress WhatsUp Gold before 22.1.0, an SNMP MIB Walker application endpoint failed to adequately sanitize malicious input. This could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in a victim's browser.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2022-10-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.6 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Progress Whatsup Gold

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.progress.com/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.progress.com/network-monitoring (Vendor Advisory)
community.progress.com/s/article/Product-Alert-Bulletin-October-2022 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42711?: CVE-2022-42711 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Progress Whatsup Gold, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2022-10-12.
How severe is CVE-2022-42711?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.