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

CVE-2021-21543

Medium
4.8/10

Summary

Dell EMC iDRAC9 versions prior to 4.40.00.00 contain multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. A remote authenticated malicious user with high privileges could potentially exploit these vulnerabilities to store malicious HTML or JavaScript code through multiple affected parameters. When victim users access the submitted data through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable application.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • 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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