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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Concrete Cms

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to XSS in the text input field since the result dashboard page output is not sanitized. The Concrete CMS security team has ranked this 4.2 with CVSS v3.1 vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Thanks @_akbar_jafarli_ for reporting. Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 8.5.10 and Concrete CMS 9.1.3. (2022-12-05, CVE-2022-43556)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in icons since the Microsoft application tile color is not sanitized. Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 9.1.3+ or 8.5.10+. (2022-11-14, CVE-2022-43688)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS in the dashboard icons due to un-sanitized output. Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 9.1.3+ or 8.5.10+. (2022-11-14, CVE-2022-43968)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS in the multilingual report due to un-sanitized output. Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 9.1.3+ or 8.5.10+. (2022-11-14, CVE-2022-43967)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS - user can cause an administrator to trigger reflected XSS with a url if the targeted administrator is using an old browser that lacks XSS protection. Remediate by updating to Concrete CMS 9.1.3+ or 8.5.10+. (2022-11-14, CVE-2022-43692)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) below 8.5.10 and between 9.0.0 and 9.1.2 is vulnerable to Reflected XSS in the image manipulation library due to un-sanitized output. (2022-11-14, CVE-2022-43694)

Title for CVE: XSS in /dashboard/system/express/entities/forms/save_control/[GUID]: old browsers only.Description: When using Internet Explorer with the XSS protection disabled, editing a form control in an express entities form for Concrete 8.5.7 and below as well as Concrete 9.0 through 9.0.2 can allow XSS. This cannot be exploited in modern-day web browsers due to an automatic input escape mechanism. Concrete CMS Security team ranked this vulnerability 2 with CVSS v3.1 Vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. Thanks zeroinside for reporting. (2022-06-24, CVE-2022-30118)

XSS in /dashboard/blocks/stacks/view_details/ - old browsers only. When using an older browser with built-in XSS protection disabled, insufficient sanitation where built urls are outputted can be exploited for Concrete 8.5.7 and below as well as Concrete 9.0 through 9.0.2 to allow XSS. This cannot be exploited in modern-day web browsers due to an automatic input escape mechanism. Concrete CMS Security team ranked this vulnerability 3.1with CVSS v3.1 Vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. Sanitation has been added where built urls are output. Credit to Credit to Bogdan Tiron from FORTBRIDGE (https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ ) for reporting (2022-06-24, CVE-2022-30120)

XSS in /dashboard/reports/logs/view - old browsers only. When using Internet Explorer with the XSS protection disabled, insufficient sanitation where built urls are outputted can be exploited for Concrete 8.5.7 and below as well as Concrete 9.0 through 9.0.2. This cannot be exploited in modern-day web browsers due to an automatic input escape mechanism. Concrete CMS Security team ranked this vulnerability 2 with CVSS v3.1 Vector AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. Thanks zeroinside for reporting. (2022-06-24, CVE-2022-30119)

An issue was discovered in Concrete CMS through 8.5.5. There is unauthenticated stored XSS in blog comments via the website field. (2021-09-27, CVE-2021-40106)

An issue was discovered in Concrete CMS through 8.5.5. There is XSS via Markdown Comments. (2021-09-27, CVE-2021-40105)

An issue was discovered in Concrete CMS through 8.5.5. Stored XSS can occur in Conversations when the Active Conversation Editor is set to Rich Text. (2021-09-24, CVE-2021-40100)

Concrete CMS (formerly concrete5) before 8.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XSS attacks via a crafted survey block. This requires at least Editor privileges. (2021-03-18, CVE-2021-28145)

The Express Entries Dashboard in Concrete5 8.5.4 allows stored XSS via the name field of a new data object at an index.php/dashboard/express/entries/view/ URI. (2021-01-08, CVE-2021-3111)

Concrete5 8.4.3 has XSS because config/concrete.php allows uploads (by administrators) of SVG files that may contain HTML data with a SCRIPT element. (2019-06-17, CVE-2018-19146)

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>

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