CVE-2020-14988
Published: 11 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-14988 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Bloomreach Experience Manager. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-7118
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in Bloomreach Experience Manager (brXM) 4.1.0 through 14.2.2. It allows XSS in the login page via the loginmessage parameter, the text editor via the src attribute of HTML elements, the translations menu via the foldername parameter,…
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the author page via the link URL, or the upload image functionality via an SVG document containing JavaScript.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.