CVE-2021-44118
Published: 26 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-44118 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Spip Spip. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-30974
Vulnerability details
SPIP 4.0.0 is affected by a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. To exploit the vulnerability, a visitor must browse to a malicious SVG file. The vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious code running on the client side into…
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web pages visited by other users (stored XSS).
- 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.