A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Gogits Gogs up to 0.5.5. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument text with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in models/issue.go in Gogs (aka Go Git Service) 0.3.1-9 through 0.5.x before 0.5.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the text parameter to api/v1/markdown.

The weakness was disclosed 11/21/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-8683 since 11/07/2014. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

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 vulnerability database at X-Force (98693). The entries VDB-72956 and VDB-72955 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• 0.3.1-9
• 0.4.1
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• 0.5.0
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• 0.5.5

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