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Critical · 9.6 CVE-2022-29168 EUVD-2022-33570

Cross Site Scripting in Wire Messages

Published Jun 25, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wire is a secure messaging application. Wire is vulnerable to arbitrary HTML and Javascript execution via insufficient escaping when rendering `@mentions` in the wire-webapp. If a user receives and views a malicious message, arbitrary code is injected and executed in the context of the victim allowing the attacker to fully control the user account. Wire-desktop clients that are connected to a vulnerable wire-webapp version are also vulnerable to this attack. The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp 2022-05-04-production.0 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded or wire-server 2022-05-04 (chart/4.11.0) or later. No known workarounds exist.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wireapp wire-webapp < 022-05-04-production.0, < 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded —

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