CVE-2021-32857

Cockpit vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Feb 20, 2023
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
Reserved: May 12, 2021

Description

Cockpit is a content management system that allows addition of content management functionality to any site. In versions 0.12.2 and prior, bad HTML sanitization in `htmleditor.js` may lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) issues. There are no known patches for this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
microwebermicroweber	0.12.2 through 0.12.2Affected

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-1035_Cockpit_Next/
https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit/commit/0c6628cbff3e49bc317c97b03a4666b3a75f76cc
https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit/blob/f7cd602bcc6134657ccfeb4e400b0050943dd243/assets/lib/uikit/js/components/htmleditor.js

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