Description

The applications fields allow the injection of HTML code. This could enable attackers to modify the applications appearance in order to trick its users into performing undesired actions.

Impact

- Allow an attacker to modify the page.
- Craft malicious links, including his injected HTML content, and sends it to a user via email.

Recommendation

Filter the information that comes from text fields with regular expressions or white lists to avoid injections.

Threat

Authenticated attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 60 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: L
• User interaction: N
• Scope: C
• Confidentiality: N
• Integrity: L
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code maturity: P
• Remediation level: O
• Report confidence: X

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:X
• Score:
• Base: 5.0
• Temporal: 4.5
• Severity:
• Base: Medium
• Temporal: Medium

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Attack Requirements: N
• Privileges required: L
• User interaction: N
• Confidentiality (VC): N
• Integrity (VI): L
• Availability (VA): N
• Confidentiality (SC): L
• Integrity (SI): L
• Availability (SA): L

Threat 4.0

• Exploit maturity: P

Result 4.0

• Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:P
• Score:
• CVSS-BT: 2.1
• Severity:
• CVSS-BT: Low

Requirements

• 173.Discard unsafe inputs

Fixes

• Ruby
• PHP

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