divio/django-cms · Security
Cross-site Scripting in django-cms
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hx7c-qpfq-xcrp
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-44649
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 5.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Description
Django CMS 3.7.3 does not validate the plugin_type parameter while generating error messages for an invalid plugin type, resulting in a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the web browser of the affected user.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44649 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hx7c-qpfq-xcrp ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/django-cms/PYSEC-2022-7.yaml ↗
- https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/Django-CMS-Reflected-XSS-Vulnerability ↗
- https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2020/07/22/django-cms-security-updates-1 ↗