CVE-2023-23637: [Security] IMPatienT v1.5.0 Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2023-23637 · Issue #101 · lambda-science/IMPatienT

A Security Advisory has been raised for IMPatienT v1.5.0 (CVE-2023-23637):

Description:
IMPatienT v1.5.0 allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via onmouseover in certain text fields within a PATCH /modify_onto request.
This may allow attackers to steal Protected Health Information (PHI).

Suggested Fix:
Consider sanitizing user input parameters by removing all non-compliant characters. Additionally, you could consider encoding the user input using HTML or URL methods.

Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23637
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23637
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A7_2017-Cross-Site_Scripting_(XSS)

Payload:

PATCH /modify_onto HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:5000
Content-Length: 2218
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.75 Safari/537.36
Origin: http://127.0.0.1:5000/
Referer: http://127.0.0.1:5000/ontocreate
Connection: close

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