XSS due to lack of CSRF validation for replying/publishing

Description

Due to lack of CSRF validation, a logged in user is potentially vulnerable to an XSS attack which could allow a third party to post on their behalf on the forum.

Recommendation

Update the nodebb-plugin-blog-comments package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.7.0
• Patched version(s): 0.7.0

References

• GHSA-43m5-c88r-cjvv
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-15156
• CWE-352
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Improper Input Validation in SocksJS-Node - CVE-2020-7693
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Eclipse Theia - CVE-2020-27224
• XSS in svg2png (NPM package) - CVE-2020-11887
• materialize-css vulnerable to cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper escape of user input - CVE-2022-25349

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Tags:

npm

nodebb-plugin-blog-comments