Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
How to prevent it (8 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid [REF-1482].
Examples of libraries and frameworks that make it easier to generate properly encoded output include Microsoft's Anti-XSS library, the OWASP ESAPI Encoding module, and Apache Wicket.
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Implementation, Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages. Study all expected communication protocols and data representations to determine the required encoding strategies.
For any data that will be output to another web page, especially any data that was received from external inputs, use the appropriate encoding on all non-alphanumeric characters.
Parts of the same output document may require different encodings, which will vary depending on whether the output is in the:
- HTML body
- Element attributes (such as src="XYZ")
- URIs
- JavaScript sections
- Cascading Style Sheets and style property
etc. Note that HTML Entity Encoding is only appropriate for the HTML body.
Consult the XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet [REF-724] for more details on the types of encoding and escaping that are needed.
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Architecture and Design, Implementation
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide data to the application. Remember that such inputs may be obtained indirectly through API calls.
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Architecture and Design
For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.
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Architecture and Design
If available, use structured mechanisms that automatically enforce the separation between data and code. These mechanisms may be able to provide the relevant quoting, encoding, and validation automatically, instead of relying on the developer to provide this capability at every point where output is generated.
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Implementation
Use and specify an output encoding that can be handled by the downstream component that is reading the output. Common encodings include ISO-8859-1, UTF-7, and UTF-8. When an encoding is not specified, a downstream component may choose a different encoding, either by assuming a default encoding or automatically inferring which encoding is being used, which can be erroneous. When the encodings are inconsistent, the downstream component might treat some character or byte sequences as special, even if they are not special in the original encoding. Attackers might then be able to exploit this discrepancy and conduct injection attacks; they even might be able to bypass protection mechanisms that assume the original encoding is also being used by the downstream component.
The problem of inconsistent output encodings often arises in web pages. If an encoding is not specified in an HTTP header, web browsers often guess about which encoding is being used. This can open up the browser to subtle XSS attacks.
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Implementation
With Struts, write all data from form beans with the bean's filter attribute set to true.
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Implementation
To help mitigate XSS attacks against the user's session cookie, set the session cookie to be HttpOnly. In browsers that support the HttpOnly feature (such as more recent versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox), this attribute can prevent the user's session cookie from being accessible to malicious client-side scripts that use document.cookie. This is not a complete solution, since HttpOnly is not supported by all browsers. More importantly, XmlHttpRequest and other powerful browser technologies provide read access to HTTP headers, including the Set-Cookie header in which the HttpOnly flag is set.
Source: MITRE CWE-79
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-49974 Public exploit
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Customer Support System v1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scri…
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-49984 Public exploit
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Medium 6.8CVE-2023-49983 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-49976 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-49977 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-49539 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-49540 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-27743 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-27744 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-51800 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-51802 Public exploit
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Critical 9.6CVE-2024-25292 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-25381 Public exploit
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Medium 6.5CVE-2024-23724 Public exploit
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Low 2.0CVE-2024-1247 Public exploit
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Critical 9.6CVE-2023-48974 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-24816 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4
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Medium 6.5CVE-2023-51504 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2024-24397 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-24396 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-49950 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-46344 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-24945 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-24135 Public exploit
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Medium 4.8CVE-2024-24134 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-24136 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2024-23659 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-48858 Public exploit
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Medium 6.5CVE-2024-22411 Public exploit
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Medium 6.1CVE-2023-48104 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-50072 Public exploit
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Medium 4.3CVE-2023-7173 Public exploit
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-6710 Public exploit
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Low 3.5
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Medium 4.7CVE-2023-47125 Public exploit
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