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

CVE-2022-29172

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

Auth0 is an authentication broker that supports both social and enterprise identity providers, including Active Directory, LDAP, Google Apps, and Salesforce. In versions before 11.33.0, when the additional signup fields feature is configured(https://github.com/auth0/lock#additional-sign-up-fields), a malicious attacker can inject invalidated HTML code into these additional fields, which is then stored in the service `user_metdata` payload (using the `name` property). Verification emails, when applicable, are generated using this metadata. It is therefore possible for an actor to craft a malicious link by injecting HTML, which is then rendered as the recipient's name within the delivered email template.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
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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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