🛡️ CVE-2022-28985 — orangehrm

🟡 CVSS 6.3 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
6.3
CVSS Score
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Description

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the addNewPost component of OrangeHRM v4.10.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted POST request.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-28985 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-2022-28985 is recorded against 1 package.

  • orangehrm

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-20
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
orangehrm — —

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/orangehrm/orangehrm/issues/1217
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/orangehrm/orangehrm/issues/1217

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