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CVE-2022-40603 — A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CGI program of Zyxel ZyWALL/US

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CGI program of Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.30 through 4.72, VPN series firmware versions 4.30 through 5.31, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.50 through 5.31, and ATP series firmware versions 4.32 through 5.31, w

CVSS
4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.67% (top 28.90%)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
2022-12-06T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-23T20:00:23.891Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CGI program of Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.30 through 4.72, VPN series firmware versions 4.30 through 5.31, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.50 through 5.31, and ATP series firmware versions 4.32 through 5.31, which could allow an attacker to trick a user into visiting a crafted URL with the XSS payload. Then, the attacker could…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
ZyxelZyWALL/USG series firmware4.30 through 4.72
ZyxelVPN series firmware4.30 through 5.31
ZyxelUSG FLEX series firmware4.50 through 5.31
ZyxelATP series firmware4.32 through 5.31

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

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

09References

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