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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Pyrdfa3
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** A vulnerability was found in RDFlib pyrdfa3 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function _get_option of the file pyRdfa/__init__.py. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be initiated remotely. The name of the patch is ffd1d62dd50d5f4190013b39cedcdfbd81f3ce3e. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-215249 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. (2022-12-10, CVE-2022-4396)
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>