CVE-2023-27472

HTML tags in entity names in the tree view are not sanitised in quickentity-editor-next

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Mar 6, 2023
Updated
Feb 25, 2025
Reserved
Mar 1, 2023

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Description

quickentity-editor-next is an open source, system local, video game asset editor. In affected versions HTML tags in entity names are not sanitised (XSS vulnerability). Allows arbitrary code execution within the browser sandbox, among other things, simply from loading a file containing a script tag in any entity name. This issue has been patched in version 1.28.1 of the application. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
quickentity-editor-nextatampy25
  • < 1.28.1Affected

References

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