Vulnerability · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-34817
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in the chat component of Etherpad 1.8.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML by importing a crafted pad.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://etherpad.org/#download x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.8.14 x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.sonarsource.com/etherpad-code-execution-vulnerabilities x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/a7968115581e20ef47a533e030f59f830486bdfa x_refsource_MISC