Baremetrics up to 1.0.14 Calendar placeholder cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Baremetrics up to 1.0.14. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Calendar Handler. This manipulation of the argument placeholder causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-32859. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

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A vulnerability was found in Baremetrics up to 1.0.14. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Calendar Handler. The manipulation of the argument placeholder 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Baremetrics date range picker is a solution for selecting both date ranges and single dates from a single calender view. Versions 1.0.14 and prior are prone to cross-site scripting (XSS) when handling untrusted `placeholder` entries. An attacker who is able to influence the field `placeholder` when creating a `Calendar` instance is able to supply arbitrary `html` or `javascript` that will be rendered in the context of a user leading to XSS. There are no known patches for this issue.

The weakness was disclosed 02/21/2023 as GHSL-2021-1042. It is possible to read the advisory at securitylab.github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2021-32859 since 05/12/2021. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-0619). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Baremetrics

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14

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