SocialNetwork Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Date: 2022-05
Affected: composer/movingbytes/social-network
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2017-7390
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in 'SocialNetwork v1.2.1'. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (mail) passed to the 'SocialNetwork-andrea/app/template/pw_forgot.php' URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website. A patch for the vulnerability is available at https://github.com/andreas83/SocialNetwork/commit/1b0799d08fda2f3099beaae1234b8b468deb8db1


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