Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in ATutor 2.2.2.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• atutor atutorup to 2.2.2 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-2555SQL injection vulnerability in include/lib/mysql_connect.inc.php in ATutor 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands v
  63This week
• CVE-2019-12169ATutor 2.2.4 allows Arbitrary File Upload and Directory Traversal, resulting in remote code execution via a ".." pathname in a ZIP archive t
  57Plan
• CVE-2017-1000002ATutor versions 2.2.1 and earlier are vulnerable to a directory traversal and file extension check bypass in the Course component resulting
  48Plan
• CVE-2014-9753confirm.php in ATutor 2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain access as an existing user via the auto_logi
  40Plan
• CVE-2019-16114In ATutor 2.2.4, an unauthenticated attacker can change the application settings and force it to use his crafted database, which allows him
  40Plan
• CVE-2017-1000004ATutor version 2.2.1 and earlier are vulnerable to a SQL injection in the Assignment Dropbox, BasicLTI, Blog Post, Blog, Group Course Email,
  40Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.