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Atlassian Confluence 6.4.1 < 6.5.2 Cross-Site Scripting Via RSS macro

medium Web App Scanning Plugin ID 113654

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Synopsis

Atlassian Confluence 6.4.1 < 6.5.2 Cross-Site Scripting Via RSS macro

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Confluence application running on the remote host is prior to version 6.5.2. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw in the RSS Feed macro handling in Atlassian Confluence which may permit remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in various rss properties which were used as links without restriction on their scheme.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Atlassian Confluence version 6.5.2 or later.

See Also

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-54903

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 113654

Type: remote

Published: 3/6/2023

Updated: 3/14/2023

Scan Template: api, basic, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16856

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:confluence:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16856

BID: 102094