🛡️ CVE-2022-43420 — contrast-continuous-application-security

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Stored XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Contrast Continuous Application Security Plugin

Contrast Continuous Application Security Plugin 3.9 and earlier does not escape data returned from the Contrast service when generating a report.

This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to control or modify Contrast service API responses.

Contrast Continuous Application Security Plugin 3.10 escapes the affected data.

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-43420 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-2022-43420 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • contrast-continuous-application-security (fixed in 3.10)
  • org.jenkins-ci.plugins:contrast-continuous-application-security (fixed in 3.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 October 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com
www.jenkins.io
www.openwall.com
www.jenkins.io

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
contrast-continuous-application-security — 3.10
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:contrast-continuous-application-security — 3.10

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