CVE-2024-23349

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

22/02/2024

Last modified:

28/03/2025

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (&#39;Cross-site Scripting&#39;) vulnerability in Apache Answer.This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.2.1.<br /> <br /> XSS attack when user enters summary. A logged-in user, when modifying their own submitted question, can input malicious code in the summary to create such an attack.<br /> <br /> Users are recommended to upgrade to version [1.2.5], which fixes the issue.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 5.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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