CVE-2021-35240 (GCVE-0-2021-35240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-31 15:57 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:33
VLAI
Title
Stored XSS via Help Server settings
Summary
A security researcher stored XSS via a Help Server setting. This affects customers using Internet Explorer, because they do not support 'rel=noopener'.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SolarWinds Orion Platform Affected: 2020.2.6 and previous versions , < 2020.2.6 HF1 (custom)
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Credits
SolarWinds would like to thank Kajetan Rostojek for reporting on the issue in a responsible manner.
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