🛡️ CVE-2022-2217 — parse-url

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 OSV
6.1
CVSS Score
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Description

Cross site scripting in parse-url

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic in GitHub repository ionicabizau/parse-url prior to 6.0.1

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-2217 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-2217 is recorded against 1 package.

  • parse-url

Timeline and source

Published on 28 June 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
huntr.dev (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2022-06-28
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
parse-url — —

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