Cross-site scripting in TastyIgniter - CVE-2021-38699
Published: August 17, 2021 / Updated: August 18, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU55910
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-2021-38699
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
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 "Customer[first_name]" parameter in setup-master/admin/customers/create. 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
TastyIgniter
How to mitigate CVE-2021-38699
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #6635 - CVE-2021-38699-Reflected-XSS (Multiple Reflected XSS in TastyIgniter v3.0.7 Restaurtant CMS) (August 18, 2021)
- Exploit #6632 - CVE-2021-38699 (TastyIgniter 3.0.7 allows XSS via the name field during user-account creation) (August 18, 2021)
- Exploit #6631 - CVE-2021-38699-Stored-XSS (Stored XSS in TastyIgniter v3.0.7 Restaurtant CMS) (August 18, 2021)