PT-2022-16962 · Esapi+3 · Esapi+3

Published 2022-04-27 · Updated 2026-04-16 · CVE-2022-24891

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ESAPI versions prior to 2.3.0.0

Description There is a potential for a cross-site scripting vulnerability in ESAPI caused by an incorrect regular expression for onsiteURL in the antisamy-esapi.xml configuration file. This can cause javascript: URLs to fail to be correctly sanitized.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.0.0, update to version 2.3.0.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, manually edit the antisamy-esapi.xml configuration files to change the onsiteURL regular expression.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-24891

DLA-4246-1

GHSA-Q77Q-VX4Q-XX6Q

USN-8181-1

Affected Products

Debian

Esapi

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 23

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/24xxx/CVE-2022-24891.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/documentation/ESAPI-security-bulletin8.pdf · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24891 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23457 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24891 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-8181-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8181-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-5878 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-24891 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-4246-1 · Vendor Advisory