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

CVE-2024-32034

Severity Medium
Score 4.8/10

Summary

Decidim is a free, open-source participatory democracy with citizen participation and open government for cities and organizations. The admin panel is subject to potential Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attachment in case an admin assigns a valuator to a proposal or does any other action that generates an admin activity log where one of the resources has an XSS crafted. This issue has been addressed in versions through 0.27.6 and 0.28.0 through 0.28.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may redirect the pages '/admin' and 'admin/logs' to other admin pages to prevent this access (i.e., '/admin/organization/edit').

  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published