Headline
GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj: readthedocs-sphinx-search vulnerable to cross-site scripting when including search results from malicious projects
Impact
This vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to include arbitrary HTML content in search results by having a user search a malicious project. This was due to our search client not correctly escaping all user content from search results. You can find more information in the advisory published in our readthedocs.org repo.
Users of this extension should update to the 0.3.2 version, and trigger a new build.
This issue was discovered by a member of our team, and we have seen no signs that this vulnerability was exploited in the wild.
Patches
This issue has been patched in our 0.3.2 version.
References
- https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search/commit/8c6f6d01e88e72ef32ed0c220b6c19d1e1121c73
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected] (PGP)
- GitHub Advisory Database
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- GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj
readthedocs-sphinx-search vulnerable to cross-site scripting when including search results from malicious projects
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 15, 2024 in readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search
Vulnerability details Dependabot alerts 0
Package
pip readthedocs-sphinx-search (pip)
Affected versions
<= 0.3.1
Patched versions
0.3.2
Description
Impact
This vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to include arbitrary HTML content in search results by having a user search a malicious project. This was due to our search client not correctly escaping all user content from search results. You can find more information in the advisory published in our readthedocs.org repo.
Users of this extension should update to the 0.3.2 version, and trigger a new build.
This issue was discovered by a member of our team, and we have seen no signs that this vulnerability was exploited in the wild.
Patches
This issue has been patched in our 0.3.2 version.
References
- readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search@8c6f6d0
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected] (PGP)
References
- GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj
- readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search@8c6f6d0
stsewd published to readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search
Jan 15, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jan 16, 2024
Reviewed
Jan 16, 2024
Severity
Moderate
6.3
/ 10
CVSS base metrics
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79
CVE ID
No known CVE
GHSA ID
GHSA-xgfm-fjx6-62mj
Source code
readthedocs/readthedocs-sphinx-search
Credits
- stsewd Analyst
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