🛡️ CVE-2022-37724 — webobjects

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

Project Wonder WebObjects vulnerable to Arbitrary HTTP Header Injection and Cross-site Scripting

Project Wonder WebObjects 1.0 through 7.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary HTTP Header injection and URL- or Header-based XSS reflection in all web-server adaptor interfaces. A patch for this issue is available at commit number b0d2d74f13203268ea254b02552600850f28014b.

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-2022-37724 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-2022-37724 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • webobjects (from 1.0 up to 5.4.3)
  • wonder:wonder (from 1.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 September 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
xmit.xyz
github.com
xmit.xyz

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 NVD
Published 2022-09-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
webobjects 1.0 5.4.3
wonder:wonder 1.0 —

References

Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory https://xmit.xyz/security/webobjects-url-tomfoolery/
Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory https://xmit.xyz/security/webobjects-url-tomfoolery/

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