🛡️ GHSA-g8h2-j9pm-4xx2 — automad (CVE-2024-40111)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Automad Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

A persistent (stored) cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Automad 2.0.0-alpha.4. This vulnerability enables an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code into the template body. The injected code is stored within the flat file CMS and is executed in the browser of any user visiting the forum.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

GHSA-g8h2-j9pm-4xx2 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

GHSA-g8h2-j9pm-4xx2 is recorded against 1 package.

  • automad/automad

Timeline and source

Published on 23 August 2024 and last revised on 26 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
drive.google.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-23
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-08-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
automad/automad — —

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