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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2024-39595

Severity Medium
Score 5.4/10

Summary

SAP Business Warehouse - Business Planning and Simulation application does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs, resulting in Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This vulnerability allows users to modify website content and on successful exploitation, an attacker can cause low impact to the confidentiality and integrity of the application.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published