Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2022-26244 is a stored XSS issue in Hospital Patient Record Management System v1.0. Malicious web content placed in the "special" field may execute when another user views the stored record. This can affect staff sessions and patient-record workflows, but public sources do not provide CVSS, patch, or exploitation evidence.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority web application issue if this system is in use. Prioritize confirmation and remediation where the application handles sensitive patient data or where authenticated users with broad privileges view submitted records.
Technical view
The CVE describes stored cross-site scripting via the "special" field. The attacker-controlled input is persisted and later rendered as script or HTML. The source bundle names Hospital Patient Record Management System v1.0, while structured affected metadata is incomplete. No CWE, CVSS vector, fixed version, or vendor mitigation is provided.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to deployments of Hospital Patient Record Management System v1.0 where users can create or edit the affected "special" field. Confirm manually because the CVE affected-product metadata is listed as n/a despite the description naming the application and version.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show active exploitation, and the CVE is not marked KEV. Stored XSS is still operationally relevant because one submitted record can affect later viewers, potentially including privileged healthcare staff using the application.
Researcher notes
Evidence is sparse: one CVE record and a referenced GitHub issue. The CVE does not provide CVSS, CWE, CPEs, affected vendor metadata, exploitation status, or fixed version. Avoid broad product assumptions beyond the named application and version.
Mitigation direction
- Check maintainer or vendor guidance for any fixed release or official workaround.
- Sanitize and validate input accepted by the "special" field.
- Encode stored field values before rendering them in web pages.
- Restrict record-edit permissions to trusted users until remediation is confirmed.
- Review stored records for unexpected markup or script-like content.
Validation and detection
- Inventory any deployments matching Hospital Patient Record Management System v1.0.
- Confirm whether the "special" field is stored and later rendered in HTML views.
- Use a safe non-production test to verify output encoding behavior.
- Review application code for input sanitization and contextual output encoding.
- Check access logs and record history for suspicious edits to the field.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Unknown
- CVSS
- Not scored
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/kishan0725/Hospital-Management-System/issues/23CVE reference, mitre
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