Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Jenkins Job Generator Plugin

Exploitation

No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.

CVSS

5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

• CVE-2022-29042: 0.83% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 57.61 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

Jenkins Job Generator Plugin 1.22 and earlier does not escape the name and description of Generator Parameter and Generator Choice parameters on Job Generator jobs' Build With Parameters views, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Item/Configure permission. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that parameters are listed on another page, like the \"Build With Parameters\" and \"Parameters\" pages provided by Jenkins (core), and that those pages are not hardened to prevent exploitation. Jenkins (core) has prevented exploitation of vulnerabilities of this kind on the \"Build With Parameters\" and \"Parameters\" pages since 2.44 and LTS 2.32.2 as part of the SECURITY-353 / CVE-2017-2601 fix.

Published by the source

13 Apr 2022, 00:00 UTC

Last modified by the source

27 Oct 2023, 17:12 UTC

Source last checked

26 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC

1. Revision 1 · created · 26 Oct 2026

   Published from ghsa record GHSA-f3jq-9c79-j65m

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2022-29042

Advisory: Stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in Jenkins Job Generator Plugin
IDs: CVE-2022-29042, GHSA-f3jq-9c79-j65m
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2022-29042 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.4)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- Maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jobgenerator: affected <= 1.22

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- Maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jobgenerator: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jobgenerator.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f3jq-9c79-j65m (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-f3jq-9c79-j65m lists affected ranges: Maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:jobgenerator >=0 <=1.22)

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