CVE-2022-37253 — Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in Crime Reporting System 1

Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in Crime Reporting System 1.0 allows a remote attacker to introduce arbitary Javascript via manipulation of an unsanitized POST parameter

01What is this vulnerability?

Persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) in Crime Reporting System 1.0 allows a remote attacker to introduce arbitary Javascript via manipulation of an unsanitized POST parameter

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-06T19:46:50.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T10:29:20.542Z

09References

• sourcecodehero.com — https://sourcecodehero.com/crime-reporting-system-project-in-php-with-source-cod…
• packetstormsecurity.com — https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167875/Crime-Reporting-System-1.0-Cross-Si…