Cross-site scripting in Western Digital products - CVE-2022-22999
Published: July 26, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU65779
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22999
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote user can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
My Cloud PR2100
My Cloud PR4100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud EX2 Ultra
My Cloud Mirror G2
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100
My Cloud EX2100
WD Cloud
My Cloud
My Cloud OS 5
My Cloud PR4100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud EX2 Ultra
My Cloud Mirror G2
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100
My Cloud EX2100
WD Cloud
My Cloud
My Cloud OS 5
How to mitigate CVE-2022-22999
Install updates from vendor's website.
My Cloud OS 5 - update to 5.23.114