CVE-2021-21447
Published: 12 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21447 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Sap Businessobjects Business Intelligence. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 49.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8721
Vulnerability details
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, versions 410, 420, allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious JavaScript payload into the custom value input field of an Input Control, which can be executed by User who views the relevant application content, which…
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leads to Stored Cross-Site Scripting.
- 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.