A vulnerability has been found in Mayan EDMS 0.13 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Bootstrap. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in apps/common/templates/calculate_form_title.html in Mayan EDMS 0.13 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) tag or the (2) title of a source in a Staging folder, (3) Name field in a bootstrap setup, or Title field in a (4) smart link or (5) web form.

The weakness was released 05/27/2014 by Dolev Farhi (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-3840 since 05/22/2014. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (33493) and SecurityFocus (BID 67552†).

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• EDMS

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• 0.13

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