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Atlassian Confluence: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2017-16856)

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Atlassian Confluence: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2017-16856)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/05/2017
Created
04/24/2019
Added
04/22/2019
Modified
09/18/2024

Description

The RSS Feed macro in Atlassian Confluence before version 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in various rss properties which were used as links without restriction on their scheme.

Solution(s)

  • atlassian-confluence-upgrade-6_5_2

References

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