Publify Vulnerable To Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Via Redirects Requiring User Interaction
Publify is a self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails. Prior to version 10.0.1 of Publify, corresponding to versions prior to 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem, publisher on a `publify` application is able to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an administrator using the redirect functionality. The exploitation of this XSS vulnerability requires the administrator to click a malicious link. An attack could attempt to hide their payload by using HTML, or other encodings, as to not make it obvious to an administrator that this is a malicious link. A publisher may attempt to use this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and become an administrator. Version 10.0.1 of Publify and version 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem fix the issue.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-79 | CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 4.0 | 1.8 | LOW | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P |
Version: 4.0
Base score: 1.8
Base severity: LOW
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P