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

CVE-2017-16022

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

Morris.js creates an svg graph, with labels that appear when hovering over a point. The hovering label names are not escaped in versions 0.5.0 and earlier. If control over the labels is obtained, script can be injected. The script will run on the client side whenever that specific graph is loaded.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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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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