CVE-2021-45224
Published: 24 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-45224 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Coins-Global Coins Construction Cloud. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.0% 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-2021-32006
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in COINS Construction Cloud 11.12. In several locations throughout the application, JavaScript code is passed as a URL parameter. Attackers can trivially alter this code to cause malicious behaviour. The application is therefore vulnerable to reflected…
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XSS via malicious URLs.
- 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.