GHSA-xmw7-848p-p95w

Airbnb Knowledge Repo XSS In Comments

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-12104

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	knowledge-repo	< 0.9.0	0.9.0

Details

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Airbnb Knowledge Repo prior to 0.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML via the post comments functionality, as demonstrated by the `post/posts/new_report.kp` URI.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12104 advisory
https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/issues/254 web
https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/issues/431 web
https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/pull/558 web
https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/commit/f026ad2afea14e0ffc91f1aa0eaedcdc72c63167 web
https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/knowledge-repo/PYSEC-2018-116.yaml web
https://pypi.org/project/knowledge-repo web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227121013/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104487 web