CVE-2024-42515

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

31/10/2024

Last modified:

01/11/2024

Description

Glossarizer through 1.5.2 improperly tries to convert text into HTML. Even though the application itself escapes special characters (e.g., ), the underlying library converts these encoded characters into legitimate HTML, thereby possibly causing stored XSS. Attackers can append a XSS payload to a word that has a corresponding glossary entry.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.90 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

9.90

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/PebbleRoad/glossarizer
https://herolab.usd.de/security-advisories/usd-2024-0011/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/glossarizer