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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Emc Sourceone
Dell EMC SourceOne, versions 7.2SP10 and prior, contain a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. A remote low privileged attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability, to hijack user sessions or to trick a victim application user to unknowingly send arbitrary requests to the server. (2021-03-01, CVE-2021-21515)
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>