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

CVE-2014-125089

Low
3.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in cention-chatserver 3.8.0-rc1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function _formatBody of the file lib/InternalChatProtocol.fe. The manipulation of the argument body leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 3.9 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is c4c0258bbd18f6915f97f91d5fee625384096a26. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-221497 was assigned to this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • 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