Codebard Help DeskWordPress extension · Codebard
CVE-2025-22757
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 · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in CodeBard CodeBard Help Desk codebard-help-desk allows Stored XSS.This issue affects CodeBard Help Desk: from n/a through <= 1.1.2.
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 · moderate confidenceA Stored XSS vulnerability in CodeBard Help Desk allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code through user input fields that are not properly sanitized before being rendered in web pages, enabling session hijacking or defacement when other users view the injected content.
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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
Codebard Help DeskWordPress extension
<= 1.1.2CVSS 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
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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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Identify the installed Codebard Help Desk versionAccess the admin panel, check version files in the application directory, or view the version information typically displayed in the footer of help desk pagesAffected if The installed version is 1.1.2 or lower
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Locate user input submission pointsNavigate through the help desk interface and identify forms that accept user-supplied data such as ticket creation, name, email, subject, and message fieldsAffected if The application accepts user input through web forms
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Test for unescaped HTML renderingSubmit test input containing harmless HTML such as <b>test</b> or <script>alert(1)</script> in any user input field, then view the submitted content and inspect the page source to see if the tags render as raw HTMLAffected if The submitted HTML tags appear as formatted text or execute JavaScript instead of being displayed as plain text
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Check for absence of input sanitization in stored contentCreate a support ticket or message with JavaScript code, then view that ticket as a different user or administrator to confirm the malicious script persists and executesAffected if The malicious script executes when other users view the injected content, indicating stored XSS vulnerability
You are affected if running Codebard Help Desk version 1.1.2 or lower and user input fields render unencoded HTML or execute JavaScript when viewed by other users.
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 server-side input validation and output encoding/sanitization for all user-supplied data before rendering in HTML context, and consider implementing Content Security Policy headers to mitigate XSS impact.
Fix this in Codebard Help Desk
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA4.0 h
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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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