CVE-2022-26616

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2022-26616 · Published 04/04/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-26616 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting open journal systems (public knowledge project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 63.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.3.0-9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
open journal systems public_knowledge_project	`≥ 2.4.8, < 3.3.0-9`	`3.3.0-9`

PKP Vendor Open Journal System v2.4.8 to v3.3.8 allows attackers to perform reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted HTTP headers.

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