GHSA-q8hg-3vqv-f8v3

Fava vulnerable to Reflected Cross-site Scripting

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2022-2523

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	fava	< 1.22.2	1.22.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in GitHub repository beancount/fava prior to 1.22.2. The `query_string` parameter of Fava is vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting, for which a attacker can modify any information that the user is able to modify. This issue is fixed in version 1.22.2.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2523 advisory
https://github.com/beancount/fava/commit/dccfb6a2f4567f35ce2e9a78e24f92ebf946bc9b web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q8hg-3vqv-f8v3 advisory
https://github.com/beancount/fava package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/fava/PYSEC-2022-240.yaml web
https://huntr.dev/bounties/2a1802d8-1c2e-4919-96a7-d4dcf7ffcf8f web