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

CVE-2020-26680

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

In vFairs 3.3, any user logged in to a vFairs virtual conference or event can modify any other users profile information to include a cross-site scripting payload. The user data stored by the database includes HTML tags that are intentionally rendered out onto the page, and this can be abused to perform XSS attacks.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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  • 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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