CVE-2021-3298

Exp

Collabtive 3.1 allows XSS when an authenticated user enters an XSS payload into the address section of the profile edit page, aka the manageuser.php?action=edit address1 parameter.

Published: 2021-01-29 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2021-3298 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.14%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.98% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2021-3298

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
49468 exploit_db edb 2021-01-25 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-3298

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.16% 2.14% +1.98%
2 2025-03-30 0.27% 0.16% -0.11%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.27% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2021-3298

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.4 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.3 2.7 [email protected]
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2021-3298

OS Trackers for CVE-2021-3298

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2021-3298 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (collabtive), 16 status rows across 16 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 14, needed 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3298

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2021-3298

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
o-dyn collabtive 3.1 cpe:2.3:a:o-dyn:collabtive:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2021-3298

URL Tags
https://collabtive.o-dyn.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=6 Vendor Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49468 Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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