CVE-2021-26092
Published: 24 February 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-26092 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortios. Its CVSS base score is 4.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 32.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-12913
Vulnerability details
Failure to sanitize input in the SSL VPN web portal of FortiOS 5.2.10 through 5.2.15, 5.4.0 through 5.4.13, 5.6.0 through 5.6.14, 6.0.0 through 6.0.12, 6.2.0 through 6.2.7, 6.4.0 through 6.4.4; and FortiProxy 1.2.0 through 1.2.9, 2.0.0 through 2.0.1 may allow…
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a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform a reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attack by sending a request to the error page with malicious GET parameters.
- 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.