CVE-2020-21987
Published: 27 April 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-21987 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Homeautomation Project Homeautomation. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 46.5th 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-2020-14753
Vulnerability details
HomeAutomation 3.3.2 is affected by persistent Cross Site Scripting (XSS). XSS vulnerabilities occur when input passed via several parameters to several scripts is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML…
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and script code in a user's browser session.
- 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.