Stored XSS vulnerability in Jenkins FitNesse Plugin
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.jenkins-ci.plugins:fitnesse
Attack vector: xss
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2020-2172
CVE-2020-2175
CWE: CWE-611
CWE-776
CWE-79
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Jenkins FitNesse Plugin 1.31 and earlier does not correctly escape report contents before showing them on the Jenkins UI. This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by users able to control the XML input files processed by the plugin. Jenkins FitNesse Plugin 1.32 escapes content from XML input files before rendering it on the Jenkins UI.


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