CVE-2021-32602
Published: 19 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-32602 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiportal. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 36.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-19442
Vulnerability details
An improper neutralization of input during web page generation vulnerability (CWE-79) in FortiPortal GUI 6.0.4 and below, 5.3.6 and below, 5.2.6 and below, 5.1.2 and below, 5.0.3 and below, 4.2.2 and below, 4.1.2 and below, 4.0.4 and below may allow…
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a remote and unauthenticated attacker to perform an XSS attack via sending a crafted request with an invalid lang parameter or with an invalid org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver.LOCALE value.
- 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.