Vulnerability · Published Oct 31, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-27359

Medium 5.4

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 0.8% (higher than 57% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 42.9% 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 REDCap 8.11.6 through 9.x before 10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML in the Messenger feature. It was found that the filename of the image or file attached in a message could be used to perform this XSS attack. A user could craft a message and send it to anyone on the platform including admins. The XSS payload would execute on the other account without interaction from the user on several pages.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.evms.edu/research/resources_services/redcap/redcap_change_log/ x_refsource_MISC
https://www.ruse.tech/blog/38 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/seb1055/cve-2020-27358-27359 x_refsource_MISC