CVE-2021-32854 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

textAngular is a text editor for Angular.js. Version 1.5.16 and prior are vulnerable to copy-paste cross-site scripting (XSS). For this particular type of XSS, the victim needs to be fooled into copying a malicious payload into the text editor. There are no known patches.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00194.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Textangular	Textangular

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:textangular:textangular:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-1001-textAngular/

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:08:53.981Z

Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-32854

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:33:55.932Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-21T15:15:10.997

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:07:53.400

Link: CVE-2021-32854

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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