Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-35698

Medium

Published: 25 July 2023

Published
25 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-35698 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Thinkific Thinkific. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Thinkific Thinkific Online Course Creation Platform 1.0 is affected by: Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The impact is: execute arbitrary code (remote). The component is: Affected Source code of the website CMS which is been used by many to host their…

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online courses using the Thinkific Platform. The attack vector is: To exploit the vulnerability any user has to just visit the link - https://hacktify.thinkific.com/account/billing?success=%E2%80%AA%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E. ¶¶ Thinkific is a Website based Learning Platform Product which is used by thousands of users worldwide. There is a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) based vulnerability in the code of the CMS where any attacker can execute a XSS attack. Proof of Concept & Steps to Reproduce: Step1 : Go to Google.com Step 2 : Search for this Dork site:thinkific.com -www Step 3 : You will get a list of websites which are running on the thinkific domains. Step 4 : Create account and signin in any of the website Step 5 : Add this endpoint at the end of the domain and you will see that there is a XSS Alert /account/billing?success=%E2%80%AA<script>alert(1)</script> Step 6 : Choose any domains from google for any website this exploit will work on all the websites as it is a code based flaw in the CMS Step 7 : Thousands of websites are vulnerable due to this vulnerable code in the CMS itself which is giving rise to the XSS attack.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

thinkific
thinkific
1.0

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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