CVE-2021-44649

medium

Description

Django CMS 3.7.3 does not validate the plugin_type parameter while generating error messages for an invalid plugin type, resulting in a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the web browser of the affected user.

References

https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2020/07/22/django-cms-security-updates-1/

https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/Django-CMS-Reflected-XSS-Vulnerability/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-01-12

Updated: 2022-01-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium