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FKIE_CVE-2021-40966

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-09-15 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:07

Severity

5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

A Stored XSS exists in TinyFileManager All version up to and including 2.4.6 in /tinyfilemanager.php when the server is given a file that contains HTML and javascript in its name. A malicious user can upload a file with a malicious filename containing javascript code and it will run on any user browser when they access the server.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5eeefd83920166099528	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager	Product, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5eeefd83920166099528	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager	Product, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	prasathmani	tiny_file_manager	*

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:07:41.053",
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CVE-2021-40966 (GCVE-0-2021-40966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-15 17:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/prasathmani/tinyfilemanager	x_refsource_MISC
https://gist.github.com/omriinbar/953368dcdd9e5ee…	x_refsource_MISC

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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