CVE-2024-46976

Circumvention of cross site scripting Protection in @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Sep 17, 2024
Updated: Sep 18, 2024
Reserved: Sep 16, 2024

Description

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. An attacker with control of the contents of the TechDocs storage buckets is able to inject executable scripts in the TechDocs content that will be executed in the victim's browser when browsing documentation or navigating to an attacker provided link. This has been fixed in the 1.10.13 release of the `@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend` package. users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

Affected Products

Product	Versions
backstagebackstage	< 1.10.13Affected

References

https://github.com/backstage/backstage/security/advisories/GHSA-5j94-f3mf-8685

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