Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in andrewpaglusch/flashpaper

Valid

Reported on

Sep 7th 2021

✍️ Description

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) refers to client-side code injection attack wherein an attacker can execute malicious scripts into a legitimate website or web application. XSS occurs when a web application makes use of unvalidated or unencoded user input within the output it generates.

The user input GET parameter k of confirm.php is unsanitized resulting reflected cross site scripting.

Remediation

Apply context-dependent encoding and/or validation to user input rendered on a page

Occurrences

confirm.php L9

References

We created a GitHub Issue asking the maintainers to create a SECURITY.md 2 years ago

We have contacted a member of the andrewpaglusch/flashpaper team and are waiting to hear back 2 years ago

Andrew Paglusch validated this vulnerability 2 years ago

wtwver has been awarded the disclosure bounty

The fix bounty is now up for grabs

wtwver submitted a

patch

2 years ago

Andrew Paglusch marked this as fixed with commit 9736da 2 years ago

The fix bounty has been dropped

This vulnerability will not receive a CVE

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