Squidex is an open source headless CMS and content management hub. In affected versions a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability enables privilege escalation of authenticated users. The SVG element filtering mechanism intended to stop XSS attacks through uploaded SVG images, is insufficient resulting to stored XSS attacks. Squidex allows the CMS contributors to be granted the permission of uploading an SVG asset. When the asset is uploaded, a filtering mechanism is performed to validate that the SVG does not contain malicious code. The validation logic consists of traversing the HTML nodes in the DOM. In order for the validation to succeed, 2 conditions must be met: 1. No HTML tags included in a "blacklist" called "InvalidSvgElements" are present. This list only contains the element "script". and 2. No attributes of HTML tags begin with "on" (i.e. onerror, onclick) (line 65). If either of the 2 conditions is not satisfied, validation fails and the file/asset is not uploaded. However it is possible to bypass the above filtering mechanism and execute arbitrary JavaScript code by introducing other HTML elements such as an <iframe> element with a "src" attribute containing a "javascript:" value. Authenticated adversaries with the "assets.create" permission, can leverage this vulnerability to upload a malicious SVG as an asset, targeting any registered user that will attempt to open/view the asset through the Squidex CMS.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-11-07T17:22:25.951Z

Updated: 2024-09-04T15:24:18.995Z

Reserved: 2023-10-25T14:30:33.753Z

Link: CVE-2023-46744

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T20:53:21.630Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-07T18:15:09.600

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:29:12.707

Link: CVE-2023-46744

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