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

CVE-2022-23475

High
8.8/10

Summary

daloRADIUS is an open source RADIUS web management application. daloRadius 1.3 and prior are vulnerable to a combination cross site scripting (XSS) and cross site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability which leads to account takeover in the mng-del.php file because of an unescaped variable reflected in the DOM on line 116. This issue has been addressed in commit `ec3b4a419e`. Users are advised to manually apply the commit in order to mitigate this issue. Users may also mitigate this issue with in two parts 1) The CSRF vulnerability can be mitigated by making the daloRadius session cookie to samesite=Lax or by the implimentation of a CSRF token in all forms. 2) The XSS vulnerability may be mitigated by escaping it or by introducing a Content-Security policy.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

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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