ID:4899 - Exploit for Stored cross-site scripting in News Lister - CVE-2020-29364

 
Main Vulnerability Database Exploits ID:4899 - Exploit for Stored cross-site scripting in News Lister - CVE-2020-29364

ID:4899 - Exploit for Stored cross-site scripting in News Lister - CVE-2020-29364

Published: December 7, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU48775
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-29364
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Vulnerable software:
News Lister

Link to public exploit:


Vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the index.php script. A remote authenticated attacker can permanently inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.