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CVE-2022-46391

• 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: 2022-12-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from Net::XWhois without proper checks.

Affected products

• Awstats: from 7.0 through 7.8
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37

References

• https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/pull/226
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00010.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRFYH4DE3COMI3LJCOQQXA4FWOABU6Z2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MYUZIFVB4N3NK4WGNHRNXZKJITCJBJX4/
• https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/pull/226
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00010.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRFYH4DE3COMI3LJCOQQXA4FWOABU6Z2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MYUZIFVB4N3NK4WGNHRNXZKJITCJBJX4/

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