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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Seomatic
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SEOmatic plugin 3.4.10 for Craft CMS 3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script via a GET to /index.php?action=seomatic/file/seo-file-link with url parameter containing the base64 encoded URL of a malicious web page / file and fileName parameter containing an arbitrary filename with the intended content-type to be rendered in the user's browser as the extension. (2022-06-12, CVE-2021-41750)
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>