CVE-2023-6148: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

January 9, 2024 (updated January 12, 2024)

Qualys Jenkins Plugin for Policy Compliance prior to version and including 1.0.5 was identified to be affected by a security flaw, which was missing a permission check while performing a connectivity check to Qualys Cloud Services. This allowed any user with login access and access to configure or edit jobs to utilize the plugin to configure a potential rouge endpoint via which it was possible to control response for certain request which could be injected with XSS payloads leading to XSS while processing the response data

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwf9-8fqr-p44m
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6148
www.qualys.com/security-advisories/
www.qualys.com/security-advisories/cve-2023-6148/

Code Behaviors & Features

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