5.4
MEDIUM
CVE-2021-21283
Flarum Sticky Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Description

Flarum is an open source discussion platform for websites. The "Flarum Sticky" extension versions 0.1.0-beta.14 and 0.1.0-beta.15 has a cross-site scripting vulnerability. A change in release beta 14 of the Sticky extension caused the plain text content of the first post of a pinned discussion to be injected as HTML on the discussion list. The issue was discovered following an internal audit. Any HTML would be injected through the m.trust() helper. This resulted in an HTML injection where <script> tags would not be executed. However it was possible to run javascript from other HTML attributes, enabling a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack to be performed. Since the exploit only happens with the first post of a pinned discussion, an attacker would need the ability to pin their own discussion, or be able to edit a discussion that was previously pinned. On forums where all pinned posts are authored by your staff, you can be relatively certain the vulnerability has not been exploited. Forums where some user-created discussions were pinned can look at the first post edit date to find whether the vulnerability might have been exploited. Because Flarum doesn't store the post content history, you cannot be certain if a malicious edit was reverted. The fix will be available in version v0.1.0-beta.16 with Flarum beta 16. The fix has already been back-ported to Flarum beta 15 as version v0.1.0-beta.15.1 of the Sticky extension. Forum administrators can disable the Sticky extension until they are able to apply the update. The vulnerability cannot be exploited while the extension is disabled.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 26, 2021, 9:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:29 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

2.3
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2021-21283 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Flarum sticky
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2021-21283.

URL Resource
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26042-security-update-to-flarum-sticky-010-beta151%29
https://github.com/flarum/sticky/commit/7ebd30462bd405c4c0570b93a6d48710e6c3db19 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/flarum/sticky/pull/24 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/flarum/sticky/security/advisories/GHSA-h3gg-7wx2-cq3h Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2021-21283 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2021-21283 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26042-security-update-to-flarum-sticky-010-beta151%29 [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26042-security-update-to-flarum-sticky-010-beta151)
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 04, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26042-security-update-to-flarum-sticky-010-beta151) No Types Assigned https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26042-security-update-to-flarum-sticky-010-beta151) Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/flarum/sticky/commit/7ebd30462bd405c4c0570b93a6d48710e6c3db19 No Types Assigned https://github.com/flarum/sticky/commit/7ebd30462bd405c4c0570b93a6d48710e6c3db19 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/flarum/sticky/pull/24 No Types Assigned https://github.com/flarum/sticky/pull/24 Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/flarum/sticky/security/advisories/GHSA-h3gg-7wx2-cq3h No Types Assigned https://github.com/flarum/sticky/security/advisories/GHSA-h3gg-7wx2-cq3h Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:flarum:sticky:0.1.0:beta14:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:flarum:sticky:0.1.0:beta15:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.53 }} 0.08%

score

0.74397

percentile

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