CVE-2022-31136 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Bookwyrm is an open source social reading and reviewing program. Versions of Bookwyrm prior to 0.4.1 did not properly sanitize html being rendered to users. Unprivileged users are able to inject scripts into user profiles, book descriptions, and statuses. These vulnerabilities may be exploited as cross site scripting attacks on users viewing these fields. Users are advised to upgrade to version 0.4.1. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Joinbookwyrm	Bookwyrm

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/commit/fe33fdcf564a6a5667aef75d5456bea08feab50d
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/security/advisories/GHSA-2cfh-v7rf-pxfp

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00311}`	epss `{'score': 0.00228}`

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00192}`	epss `{'score': 0.00311}`

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-07-07T17:55:13.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T18:04:09.995Z

Reserved: 2022-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-31136

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T07:11:39.628Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-07-07T18:15:09.697

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:03:58.410

Link: CVE-2022-31136

Redhat

No data.

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