CVE-2023-4496 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-4496: Easy Chat Server XSS vulnerability

Vendor Efs Software

Product Easy Chat Server

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published October 4, 2023

Last update September 5, 2024

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CVSS base score

6.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Easy Chat Server, in its 3.1 version and before, does not sufficiently encrypt user-controlled inputs, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability stored via /body2.ghp (POST method), in the mtowho parameter.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 4, 2023 CVE published

September 5, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4496 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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