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Stored XSS via attribute

Moderate
marcusramberg published GHSA-xmpj-xwm3-vww7 Jan 4, 2022

Package

Convos.pm (Perl)

Affected versions

6.51, 6.50, 6.49

Patched versions

6.52

Description

Summary

The Convos is an open source multi-user chat that runs in a web browser. Characters starting with "https://" in the chat window create tag. Stored XSS vulnerability using onfocus and autofocus occurs because escaping exists for "<" or ">" but escaping for double quarter does not exist.

Impact

Through this vulnerability, an attacker is capable to execute malicious scripts.

Patches

86b2193

References

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

CVE-2022-21649

Weaknesses

Credits