CVE-2022-39025
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedU-Office Force PrintMessage function has insufficient filtering for special characters. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject JavaScript and perform XSS (Reflected Cross-Site Scripting) attack.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceU-Office Force PrintMessage function fails to properly sanitize special characters in user input, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to inject malicious JavaScript through crafted requests. This reflected XSS vulnerability executes in victim browsers when they interact with malicious links or crafted form submissions.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 20.50.7821dCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm U Office Force installation and versionLocate the U Office Force application and determine its installed version number. This may be found in the application itself, installed files, or system inventory tools.Affected if The installed version is 20.50.7821d or any earlier version (anything <= 20.50.7821d).
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Identify PrintMessage function exposureDetermine if the PrintMessage function is exposed and accessible in the web interface or API endpoints. This function handles user-supplied input for message printing.Affected if The PrintMessage function is accessible without authentication and accepts user input.
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Test for reflected XSS in PrintMessageSubmit a crafted request to the PrintMessage function with a test payload containing special characters (such as <script>alert('XSS')</script> or similar JavaScript injection strings) and observe if the input is reflected back in the response without encoding.Affected if The response reflects the unsanitized special characters back to the user, allowing JavaScript execution in the browser.
A user is affected if they are running U Office Force version 20.50.7821d or earlier AND the PrintMessage function is accessible and reflects user input without proper sanitization.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper input validation and output encoding/escaping for all user-supplied data in the PrintMessage function. Use context-appropriate encoding (HTML, JavaScript, URL) based on where the data is rendered.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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