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Cross-Site Scripting in Content Preview

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 16, 2021 in TYPO3/typo3 • Updated Feb 2, 2024

Package

composer typo3/cms (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.14
>= 11.0.0, < 11.1.1

Patched versions

10.4.14
11.1.1
composer typo3/cms-backend (Composer)
>= 10.0.0, <= 10.4.13
>= 11.0.0, <= 11.1.0
10.4.14
11.1.1
composer typo3/cms-core (Composer)
>= 10.0.0, < 10.4.14
>= 11.0.0, < 11.1.1
10.4.14
11.1.1

Description

Problem

It has been discovered that database fields used as descriptionColumn are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when their content gets previewed in the page module. A valid backend user account is needed to exploit this vulnerability.

Solution

Update to TYPO3 versions 10.4.14, 11.1.1 that fix the problem described.

Credits

Thanks to Richie Lee who reported this issue and to TYPO3 framework merger Andreas Fernandez who fixed the issue.

References

References

@ohader ohader published to TYPO3/typo3 Mar 16, 2021
Reviewed Mar 23, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 23, 2021
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 23, 2021
Last updated Feb 2, 2024

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
Low
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:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.061%
(28th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21340

GHSA ID

GHSA-fjh3-g8gq-9q92

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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