CVE-2021-26549
Published: 09 February 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-26549 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Smartfoxserver Smartfoxserver. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 18.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-13348
Vulnerability details
An XSS issue was discovered in SmartFoxServer 2.17.0. Input passed to the AdminTool console is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML code in a user's browser session in context…
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of an affected site.
- 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.