MEDIUM 5.4 Go

Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in repository issue list in Gogs

GHSA-xq4v-vrp9-vcf2 · CVE-2022-31038 · GO-2022-0483

Published · Modified

Description

Impact

DisplayName allows all the characters from users, which leads to an XSS vulnerability when directly displayed in the issue list.

Patches

DisplayName is sanitized before being displayed. Users should upgrade to 0.12.9 or the latest 0.13.0+dev.

Workarounds

Check and update the existing users' display names that contain malicious characters.

References

N/A

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please post on https://github.com/gogs/gogs/pull/7009.

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