🛡️ CVE-2022-40004 — thingsboard

🔴 CVSS 9.6 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
9.6
CVSS Score
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Description

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Things Board 3.4.1 allows remote attackers to escalate privilege via crafted URL to the Audit Log.

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-40004 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-2022-40004 is recorded against 1 package.

  • thingsboard

Timeline and source

Published on 15 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
thingsboard — —

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