#VU83470 Cross-site scripting in AntiSamy - CVE-2022-28367 

 

#VU83470 Cross-site scripting in AntiSamy - CVE-2022-28367

Published: November 24, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83470
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28367
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
AntiSamy
Software vendor:
nahsra (Arshan Dabirsiaghi)

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML tag smuggling on STYLE content with crafted input. The output serializer does not properly encode the supposed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) content.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. 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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