GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-wp8j-c736-c5r3 TYPO3 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Exploitable by Editors

MEDIUM Published 2024-05-30 Modified 2024-05-30 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
typo3/cms
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
Reviewed
2024-05-30

Affected packages

• Packagist typo3/cms: >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.14 → fixed in 6.2.14 • Packagist typo3/cms: >= 7.0.0, < 7.3.1 → fixed in 7.3.1

Description

It has been discovered that link tags generated by typolink functionality in the website's frontend are vulnerable to cross-site scripting - values being assigned to HTML attributes have not been parsed correctly. A valid backend user account is needed to exploit this vulnerability. As second and separate vulnerability in the filelist module of the backend user interface has been referenced with this advisory as well. Error messages being shown after using a malicious name for renaming a file are not propery encoded, thus vulnerable to cross-site scripting. A valid backend user account is needed to exploit this vulnerability.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References