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CVE-2016-15025: Mitigate against reflected XSS attacks by ssbrewster · Pull Request #174 · johnpapa/generator-hottowel
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in generator-hottowel 0.0.11. Affected is an unknown function of the file app/templates/src/server/_app.js of the component 404 Error Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is c17092fd4103143a9ddab93c8983ace8bf174396. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221484.
Mitigate against reflected XSS attacks in production by returning
the custom 404 response object instead of express’ default 404
response
A reflected XSS vulnerability was discovered using the Burp pen test tool and successfully tested
by passing an arbitrary url parameter GET /images/?41b68(a)184a9=1
This input was echoed unmodified in the application’s response meaning that it is possible to inject JavaScript commands into the returned document
This fixes #132
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in generator-hottowel 0.0.11. Affected is an unknown function of the file app/templates/src/server/_app.js of the component 404 Error Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The name of the patch is c17092fd4103143a9ddab93c8983ace8bf174396. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-221484.