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

CVE-2018-14691

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Subsonic 6.1.1. The music tags feature is affected by three stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the c0-param2, c0-param3, and c0-param4 parameters to dwr/call/plaincall/tagService.setTags.dwr that could be used to steal session information of a victim.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • 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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