🛡️ CVE-2022-23081 — openlibrary

🟡 CVSS 4.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
4.3
CVSS Score
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Description

In openlibrary versions deploy-2016-07-0 through deploy-2021-12-22 are vulnerable to Reflected XSS.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is medium, it requires no authentication. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity partial, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-23081 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-2022-23081 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openlibrary (from 2016-07-0 up to 2021-12-22)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 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 NVD.

References

github.com
www.mend.io
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www.mend.io

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 4.3
CVSS Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-06-22
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openlibrary 2016-07-0 2021-12-22

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