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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Connect

Adobe Connect version 11.2.3 (and earlier) is affected by a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If an attacker is able to convince a victim to visit a URL referencing a vulnerable page, malicious JavaScript content may be executed within the context of the victim's browser. (2021-10-15, CVE-2021-40721)

Adobe Connect version 11.2.2 (and earlier) is affected by a Reflected Cross-site Scripting vulnerability that could be abused by an attacker to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. If an attacker is able to convince a victim to visit a URL referencing a vulnerable page, malicious JavaScript content may be executed within the context of the victim's browser. (2021-09-01, CVE-2021-36062)

Adobe Connect version 11.2.2 (and earlier) is affected by a Reflected Cross-site Scripting vulnerability that could be abused by an attacker to inject malicious scripts into vulnerable form fields. Malicious JavaScript may be executed in a victim’s browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field. (2021-09-01, CVE-2021-36063)

Adobe Connect version 11.0.7 (and earlier) is affected by a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript content that may be executed within the context of the victim's browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field. (2021-03-12, CVE-2021-21079)

Adobe Connect version 11.0.7 (and earlier) is affected by a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript content that may be executed within the context of the victim's browser when they browse to the page containing the vulnerable field. (2021-03-12, CVE-2021-21080)

Adobe Connect version 11.0 (and earlier) is affected by a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If an attacker is able to convince a victim to visit a URL referencing a vulnerable page, malicious JavaScript content may be executed within the context of the victim's browser. (2020-11-12, CVE-2020-24442)

Adobe Connect version 11.0 (and earlier) is affected by a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. If an attacker is able to convince a victim to visit a URL referencing a vulnerable page, malicious JavaScript content may be executed within the context of the victim's browser. (2020-11-12, CVE-2020-24443)

Jama Connect 8.44.0 is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (2020-01-21, CVE-2019-19592)

The OpenID Connect reference implementation for MITREid Connect through 1.3.3 allows XSS due to userInfoJson being included in the page unsanitized. This is related to header.tag. The issue can be exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript. (2020-01-04, CVE-2020-5497)

connect node module before 2.14.0 suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to a lack of validation of file in directory.js middleware. (2018-06-07, CVE-2018-3717)

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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