CVE-2022-40287 — The application was found to be vulnerable to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site

The application was found to be vulnerable to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in messaging functionality, leading to privilege escalation or a compromise of a targeted account.

01What is this vulnerability?

The application was found to be vulnerable to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in messaging functionality, leading to privilege escalation or a compromise of a targeted account.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
PHP Point of Sale LLC	PHP Point of Sale	0

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: 2022-10-31T20:08:11.893Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-06T19:13:46.860Z

09References

• www.themissinglink.com.au — https://www.themissinglink.com.au/security-advisories/cve-2022-40287