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

CVE-2015-9282

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

The Pie Chart Panel plugin through 2019-01-02 for Grafana is vulnerable to XSS via legend data or tooltip data. When a chart is included in a Grafana dashboard, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain remote unauthenticated access to the dashboard.

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