CVE-2020-5497: Cross-site Scripting

January 4, 2020 (updated February 20, 2020)

The OpenID Connect reference implementation for MITREid Connect allows XSS due to userInfoJson being included in the page unsanitized. This is related to header.tag. The issue can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript.

References

github.com/mitreid-connect/OpenID-Connect-Java-Spring-Server/issues/1521
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5497

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