Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting ghost package, versions [1.0.0-alpha.1,1.0.0-alpha.5)[0.8,0.11.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-GHOST-60163
  • published22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed22 Mar 2017
  • creditShashank

Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghost to version 1.0.0-alpha.5 or higher.

Overview

ghost is a blogging platform.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the subscribe url. If an attacker set the location parameter to javascript:alert(0), javascript will executed in the users browser when pressing the back button.

Details

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