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CVE-2021-41258: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

November 16, 2021 (updated November 19, 2021)

Kirby is an open source file structured CMS. In affected versions Kirby’s blocks field stores structured data for each block. This data is then used in block snippets to convert the blocks to HTML for use in your templates. We recommend to escape HTML special characters to protect against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The default snippet for the image block unfortunately did not use our escaping helper. This made it possible to include malicious HTML code in the source, alt and link fields of the image block, which would then be displayed on the site frontend and executed in the browsers of site visitors and logged in users who are browsing the site. Attackers must be in your group of authenticated Panel users in order to exploit this weakness. Users who do not make use of the blocks field are not affected. This issue has been patched in Kirby version 3.5.8 by escaping special HTML characters in the output from the default image block snippet. Please update to this or a later version to fix the vulnerability.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-cq58-r77c-5jjw
  • github.com/getkirby/kirby/pull/3510
  • github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/3.5.8
  • github.com/getkirby/kirby/security/advisories/GHSA-cq58-r77c-5jjw
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41258

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 3.5.0 before 3.5.8

Fixed versions

  • 3.5.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.5.8 or above.

Impact 5.4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

packagist/getkirby/cms/CVE-2021-41258.yml

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