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GHSA-32GR-4CQ6-5W5Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-01 18:02 – Updated: 2023-03-13 19:18

Summary

rsshub vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via unvalidated URL parameters

Details

Impact

When the URL parameters contain certain special characters, it returns an error page that does not properly handle XSS vulnerabilities, allowing for the execution of arbitrary JavaScript code.

Users who access the deliberately constructed URL are affected.

Patches

This vulnerability was fixed in version c910c4d28717fb860fbe064736641f379fab2c91. Please upgrade to this or a later version.

Workarounds

No.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2023-03-13T19:18:32Z",
  "published": "2023-03-01T18:02:28Z",
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}

CVE-2023-26491 (GCVE-0-2023-26491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-03 22:41 – Updated: 2025-02-25 15:02

Title

RSSHub is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) via unvalidated URL parameters

Summary

RSSHub is an open source and extensible RSS feed generator. When the URL parameters contain certain special characters, it returns an error page that does not properly handle XSS vulnerabilities, allowing for the execution of arbitrary JavaScript code. Users who access the deliberately constructed URL are affected. This vulnerability was fixed in version c910c4d28717fb860fbe064736641f379fab2c91. Please upgrade to this or a later version, there are no known workarounds.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-25 14:30 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7639 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub/commit/c910c4d28…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
DIYgod	RSSHub	Affected: < 1.0.0-master.c910c4d

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