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MoinMoin Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 14, 2024

Package

pip moin (pip)

Affected versions

<= 1.5.8

Patched versions

None

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin 1.5.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) certain input processed by formatter/text_gedit.py (aka the gui editor formatter); (2) a page name, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when the page is successfully deleted by a victim in a DeletePage action; or (3) the destination page name for a RenamePage action, which triggers an injection in PageEditor.py when a victim's rename attempt fails because of a duplicate name. NOTE: the AttachFile XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0781, and the login XSS issue is already covered by CVE-2008-0780.
The issue has been fixed on d0152eeb4499 and 4ede07e792dd.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 5, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Reviewed May 14, 2024
Last updated May 14, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(73rd percentile)

Weaknesses

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

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2008-1098

GHSA ID

GHSA-8fj9-pj4p-4vq7

Source code

No known source code
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