Cross-site scripting in All In One Favicon - CVE-2018-13832
Published: August 2, 2019 / Updated: June 17, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19652
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13832
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via Apple-Text, GIF-Text, ICO-Text, PNG-Text, or JPG-Text. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link 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.
Affected software
All In One Favicon
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13832
Update to version 4.7.
All In One Favicon - update to 4.7