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YaCy Peer-To-Peer Search Engine XSS

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Web application abuses

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

18 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host contains a peer-to-peer search engine that is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. Description : The remote host runs YaCy, a peer-to-peer distributed web search engine and caching web proxy. The remote version of this software is vulnerable to multiple cross-site scripting due to a lack of sanitization of user-supplied data. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to use the remote server to perform an attack against a third-party user.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to YaCy 0.32 or later.

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