Reflected XSS via unescaped replacement input
Published Nov 28, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025
Reflected XSS in Taraprasad Swain Find and Replace All before 1.3 allows remote attackers to run script in an administrator's browser. The settings page returns the POSTed replacestr value to the response without sanitizing the input or escaping it for HTML output. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to submit an attacker-controlled form, after which script runs with access to the administrator's same-origin session.
Summary
What happened
Reflected XSS in Taraprasad Swain Find and Replace All before 1.3 allows remote attackers to run script in an administrator's browser. The settings page returns the POSTed replacestr value to the response without sanitizing the input or escaping it for HTML output. Exploitation requires an authenticated administrator to submit an attacker-controlled form, after which script runs with access to the administrator's same-origin session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-2311
- Published
- Nov 28, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Vendor
- Taraprasad Swain
- Product
- Find and Replace All
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1204
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 28, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.3
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