🛡️ CVE-2021-25986 — wiki

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cross-site Scripting in django-wiki

In Django-wiki, versions 0.0.20 to 0.7.8 are vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Notifications Section. An attacker who has access to edit pages can inject JavaScript payload in the title field. When a victim gets a notification regarding the changes made in the application, the payload in the notification panel renders and loads external JavaScript.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-25986 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2021-25986 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wiki (from 0.0.20 up to 0.7.9)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 December 2021 and last revised on 19 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
pypi.org (Web)
www.whitesourcesoftware.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-12-02
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-19

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wiki 0.0.20 0.7.9

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