CVE-2021-46888 (GCVE-0-2021-46888)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-21 16:56
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in hledger before 1.23. A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in toBloodhoundJson that allows an attacker to execute JavaScript by encoding user-controlled values in a payload with base64 and parsing them with the atob function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-21 16:55 UTC
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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