GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-98pf-gfh3-x3mp Read the Docs vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- readthedocs
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2022-11-10
Affected packages
• npm readthedocs: < 8.8.1 → fixed in 8.8.1
Description
Impact
This vulnerability allowed a malicious user to serve arbitrary HTML files from the main application domain (readthedocs[.]org/readthedocs[.]com) by exploiting a vulnerability in the code that serves downloadable content from a project.
Exploiting this would have required the attacker to get a logged-in user to visit the malicious URL, which would have allowed the attacker to take control of the user's session with JavaScript (making requests to the API/site on behalf of the user). This URL would have looked something like `hxxps[:]//readthedocs[.]org/projects/attacker-project/downloads/html/version-with-javascript-attack/`.
Patches
This issue has been patched in our 8.8.1 release.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness