CVE-2021-43561
Published: 10 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-43561 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Pega-Sus Google For Jobs. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-2357
Vulnerability details
An XSS issue was discovered in the google_for_jobs (aka Google for Jobs) extension before 1.5.1 and 2.x before 2.1.1 for TYPO3. The extension fails to properly encode user input for output in HTML context. A TYPO3 backend user account is…
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required to exploit the vulnerability.
- 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.