Testa 3.5.1 login.php redirect cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Testa 3.5.1 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the file login.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument redirect results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2022-50896. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Testa 3.5.1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the file login.php. The manipulation of the argument redirect with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Testa 3.5.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the login.php redirect parameter that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts. Attackers can craft a specially encoded payload in the redirect parameter to execute arbitrary JavaScript in victim's browser context.

The weakness was disclosed by Ashkan Moghaddas as 51023. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-50896 since 01/10/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:login.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51023). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Testa

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• 3.5.1

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