WSO2 Registry Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Description

WSO2 Registry has been identified as vulnerable due to improper output encoding, a Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack can be carried out by an attacker injecting a malicious payload into the Registry feature of the Management Console.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
Advisory on GitHub
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Published (advisory)
2023-12-22 18:30:30 UTC
Updated
2023-12-22 21:31:02 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-12-22 21:31:02 UTC
NVD published
2023-12-18

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.35% 56.61%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
4.8 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: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: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.

Identifiers

CWEs

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

Affected packages (1)

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

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
maven org.wso2.carbon.registry:carbon-registry < 4.7.37 4.7.37

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence