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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Communications Cloud Native Core Automated Test Suite
Jenkins Matrix Project Plugin 1.19 and earlier does not escape HTML metacharacters in node and label names, and label descriptions, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with Agent/Configure permission. (2022-01-12, CVE-2022-20615)
A vulnerability was found in Hibernate-Validator. The SafeHtml validator annotation fails to properly sanitize payloads consisting of potentially malicious code in HTML comments and instructions. This vulnerability can result in an XSS attack. (2019-11-08, CVE-2019-10219)
A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Jenkins 2.191 and earlier, LTS 2.176.2 and earlier allowed attackers with Overall/Administer permission to configure the update site URL to inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript in update center web pages. (2019-08-28, CVE-2019-10383)
The f:validateButton form control for the Jenkins UI did not properly escape job URLs in Jenkins 2.171 and earlier and Jenkins LTS 2.164.1 and earlier, resulting in a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by users with the ability to control job names. (2019-04-10, CVE-2019-1003050)
A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.132 and earlier, 2.121.1 and earlier in BuildTimelineWidget.java, BuildTimelineWidget/control.jelly that allows attackers with Job/Configure permission to define JavaScript that would be executed in another user's browser when that other user performs some UI actions. (2018-07-23, CVE-2018-1999005)
A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.132 and earlier, 2.121.1 and earlier in the Stapler web framework's org/kohsuke/stapler/Stapler.java that allows attackers with the ability to control the existence of some URLs in Jenkins to define JavaScript that would be executed in another user's browser when that other user views HTTP 404 error pages while Stapler debug mode is enabled. (2018-07-23, CVE-2018-1999007)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.
The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete
what results in:
<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>
In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>
and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:
<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>