JSPUI spellcheck and autocomplete tools vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting
Date: 2022-08
Affected: maven/org.dspace:dspace-jspui, maven/org.dspace:dspace-jspui
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2022-31191
CWE: CWE-79
CVSS: 7.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

### Impact The JSPUI spellcheck "Did you mean" HTML escapes the data-spell attribute in the link, but not the actual displayed text. Similarly, the JSPUI autocomplete HTML does not properly escape text passed to it. Both are vulnerable to XSS. This vulnerability only impacts the JSPUI. _This vulnerability does NOT impact the XMLUI or 7.x._ ### Patches _DSpace 6.x:_ * Fixed in 6.4 via two commits: * Fix for spellcheck: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/ebb83a75234d3de9be129464013e998dc929b68d * Fix for autocomplete: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/35030a23e48b5946f5853332c797e1c4adea7bb7 * 6.x patch files available (may be applied manually if an immediate upgrade to 6.4 or above is not possible) * Fix for spellcheck: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/ebb83a75234d3de9be129464013e998dc929b68d.patch * Fix for autocomplete: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/35030a23e48b5946f5853332c797e1c4adea7bb7.patch _DSpace 5.x:_ * Fixed in 5.11 via two commits: * Fix for spellcheck: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c89e493e517b424dea6175caba54e91d3847fc3a * Fix for autocomplete: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/6f75bb084ab1937d094208c55cd84340040bcbb5 * 5.x patch files available (may be applied manually if an immediate upgrade to 5.11 or 6.4 is not possible) * Fix for spellcheck: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c89e493e517b424dea6175caba54e91d3847fc3a.patch * Fix for autocomplete: https://github.com/DSpace/


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