CVE-2020-15249 LOW

CVE-2020-15249: Stored XSS by authenticated backend user with access to upload files

Vendor Octobercms
Product october
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published November 23, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

2.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from version 1.0.319 and before version 1.0.469, backend users with access to upload files were permitted to upload SVG files without any sanitization applied to the uploaded files. Since SVG files support being parsed as HTML by browsers, this means that they could theoretically upload Javascript that would be executed on a path under the website's domain (i.e. /storage/app/media/evil.svg), but they would have to convince their target to visit that location directly in the target's browser as the backend does not display SVGs inline anywhere, SVGs are only displayed as image resources in the backend and are thus unable to be executed. Issue has been patched in Build 469 (v1.0.469) & v1.1.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 23, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated