CVE-2022-2312: Student Result or Employee Database < 1.7.5 - Stored Cross Site Scripting via CSRF

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Student Result or Employee Database WordPress plugin before 1.7.5 does not have CSRF in its AJAX actions, allowing attackers to make logged in user with a role as low as contributor to add/edit and delete students via CSRF attacks. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site scripting

Affected products

Student Result or Employee Database: before 1.7.5 — fixed in 1.7.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Student Result or Employee Database 1.7.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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