Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting org.dojotoolkit:dojo package, versions [,1.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGDOJOTOOLKIT-538745
  • published24 May 2016
  • disclosed9 Apr 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Apr 2009

CVE-2008-6681  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 1.1 or higher, which xml-encodes the output.

Overview

The editor widget of dojo, a popular JavaScript toolkit, is vulnerable to XSS attacks.

When saving (potentially) encoded HTML scripts in the editor and loading them again, the scripts are executed anyway.

Details

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