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@webiny/react-rich-text-renderer vulnerable to insecure rendering of rich text content

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 24, 2023 in webiny/webiny-js • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

npm @webiny/react-rich-text-renderer (npm)

Affected versions

<= 5.37.1

Patched versions

5.37.2

Description

Overview

@webiny/react-rich-text-renderer is a react component to render data coming from Webiny Headless CMS and Webiny Form Builder. The @webiny/react-rich-text-renderer package depends on the editor.js rich text editor to handle rich text content. The CMS stores rich text content from the editor.js into the database. When the @webiny/react-rich-text-renderer is used to render such content, it uses the dangerouslySetInnerHTML prop, without applying HTML sanitization. The issue arises when an actor, who in this context would specifically be a content manager with access to the CMS, inserts a malicious script as part of the user-defined input. This script is then injected and executed within the user's browser when the main page or admin page loads.

Am I affected?

You will be affected if you're running a Webiny project created prior to 5.35.0 and you're using the legacy rich text editor (which uses editor.js library under the hood). If you've already switched to using the new rich text editor, powered by Lexical editor, you will not be affected by this.

How do I patch this vulnerability?

Update to Webiny version 5.37.2.

References

@Pavel910 Pavel910 published to webiny/webiny-js Aug 24, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 24, 2023
Reviewed Aug 24, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 25, 2023
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.053%
(22nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-41167

GHSA ID

GHSA-3x59-vrmc-5mx6

Source code

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