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

CVE-2019-12927

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

MailEnable Enterprise Premium 10.23 was vulnerable to stored and reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Because the session cookie did not use the HttpOnly flag, it was possible to hijack the session cookie by exploiting this vulnerability.

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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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