CVE-2022-3988: Frappe Search navbar_search.html cross site scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-11-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-707

Description

A vulnerability was found in Frappe. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file frappe/templates/includes/navbar/navbar_search.html of the component Search. The manipulation of the argument q leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is bfab7191543961c6cb77fe267063877c31b616ce. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-213560.

Affected products

frappe: through 14.14.3

References

https://github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/bfab7191543961c6cb77fe267063877c31b616ce
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/pull/18847
https://vuldb.com/?id.213560
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/commit/bfab7191543961c6cb77fe267063877c31b616ce
https://github.com/frappe/frappe/pull/18847
https://vuldb.com/?id.213560

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