#VU31409 Cross-site scripting in jsoup - CVE-2015-6748
Published: September 25, 2017 / Updated: July 18, 2020
jsoup
Jonathan Hedley
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 jsoup before 1. 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.
Remediation
External links
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/28/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76504
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258310
- https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/pull/582
- https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HV-1012
- https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-5223?_sscc=t
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00021.html