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Craft CMS stored XSS in indexedVolumes

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 25, 2023 in craftcms/cms • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

composer craftcms/cms (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 4.0.0-RC1, <= 4.4.5

Patched versions

4.4.6

Description

Summary

XSS can be triggered via the Update Asset Index utility

PoC

  1. Access setting tab
  2. Create new assets
  3. In assets name inject payload: "<script>alert(26)</script>
  4. Click Utilities tab
  5. Choose all volumes, or volume trigger xss
  6. Click Update asset indexes.

XSS will be triggered

Json response volumes name makes triggers the payload

"session":{"id":1,"indexedVolumes":{"1":"\"<script>alert(26)</script>"},

It’s run on every POST request in the utility.

Resolved in craftcms/cms@8c2ad0b

References

@angrybrad angrybrad published to craftcms/cms May 25, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 26, 2023
Reviewed May 26, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 26, 2023
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2023-33197

GHSA ID

GHSA-6qjx-787v-6pxr

Source code

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