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GHSA-8GR4-JGMH-5G8W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 22:28 – Updated: 2024-11-19 15:31

Details

In “Calibre-web” application, v0.6.0 to v0.6.12, are vulnerable to Stored XSS in “Metadata”. An attacker that has access to edit the metadata information, can inject JavaScript payload in the description field. When a victim tries to open the file, XSS will be triggered.

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2021-25964 (GCVE-0-2021-25964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-04 14:55 – Updated: 2025-04-30 16:24

Summary

Severity ?

5.4 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

Mend

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/commit/32…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	OzzieIsaacs	calibreweb	Affected: 0.6.0 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ 0.6.12 (custom)

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CVE-2021-25964 (GCVE-0-2021-25964)

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