Withdrawn Advisory: Stored Cross-site scripting affecting automad/automad

Description

Withdrawn Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because only the main admin with the highest level of privilege can provide input, and there are no users other than the admin from whom data could be stolen. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

automad up to 1.10.9 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting in the sitename argument because the SharedController class that handles form data and saving shared information does not properly sanitize the user input on the client side when rendering the data. The attack may be launched remotely and an exploit has been disclosed publicly.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
low
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Published (advisory)
2023-12-21 15:30:33 UTC
Updated
2024-08-26 18:23:30 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-12-29 19:28:58 UTC
NVD published
2023-12-21
Withdrawn
2024-08-26 18:23:27 UTC

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.14% 34.53%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
2.4 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
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.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Credits

  • marcantondahmen (analyst)

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
composer automad/automad <= 1.10.9

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence