openedx/recommenderxblock · Security
Cross-site scripting in recommender-xblock
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-3j5x-7ccf-ppgm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-20858
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.1 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 5.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Description
Recommender before 1.3.1 allows XSS. It is possible for a learner to craft a fake resource to recommender, that includes script which could possibly steal credentials from staff if they are lured into viewing the recommended resource.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20858 ↗
- https://github.com/edx/RecommenderXBlock/pull/2 ↗
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openedx-announce/SF8Sn6MuUTg ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3j5x-7ccf-ppgm ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/recommender-xblock/PYSEC-2019-219.yaml ↗