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Cross-Site Scripting in keystone

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 16, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm keystone (npm)

Affected versions

<= 4.0.0-beta6

Patched versions

4.0.0-beta7

Description

Versions of keystone prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to properly encode rendered HTML on admin-created blog posts. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser. Exploiting this vulnerability requires having access to an admin account.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.0.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 16, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

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
High
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:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.143%
(51st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-15881

GHSA ID

GHSA-7cv6-gvx3-m54m

Source code

No known source code
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