#VU45304 Cross-site scripting in MoinMoin - CVE-2011-1058

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#VU45304 Cross-site scripting in MoinMoin - CVE-2011-1058

Published: February 22, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45304
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1058
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
MoinMoin
Software vendor:
MoinMoin

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 reStructuredText (rst) parser in parser/text_rst.py in MoinMoin before 1.9.3, when docutils is installed or when "format rst" is set,. 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

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

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