CVE-2021-25987 (GCVE-0-2021-25987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-30 13:50 – Updated: 2025-04-30 15:44
VLAI?
Title
Hexo - Stored XSS
Summary
Hexo versions 0.0.1 to 5.4.0 are vulnerable against stored XSS. The post “body” and “tags” don’t sanitize malicious javascript during web page generation. Local unprivileged attacker can inject arbitrary code.
Severity ?
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Hexo Hexo Affected: unspecified , ≤ 5.4.0 (custom)
Affected: next of 0.0.1 , < unspecified (custom)
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