Cross-site scripting in dolibarr - CVE-2019-17578

Detailed vulnerability description

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 the "Sender email for automatic emails (default value in php.ini: Undefined)" field in the admin/mails.php?action=edit URI within the "outgoing email setup" feature . 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.

How to mitigate CVE-2019-17578

Sources

• https://mycvee.blogspot.com/p/cve-2019-17578.html
• https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/releases/tag/10.0.3