Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in yourls/yourls
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Sep 9th 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 oldsql of upgrade.php is unsanitized resulting reflected cross site scripting.
Remediation
Apply context-dependent encoding and/or validation to user input rendered on a page
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2 years ago
྅༻ Ǭɀħ ༄༆ཉ
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2 years ago
Thanks for reporting. Fixed: https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/pull/3055
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