JStachio up to 1.0.0 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in JStachio up to 1.0.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2023-33962. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in JStachio up to 1.0.0. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

JStachio is a type-safe Java Mustache templating engine. Prior to version 1.0.1, JStachio fails to escape single quotes `'` in HTML, allowing an attacker to inject malicious code. This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of other users visiting pages that use this template engine. This can lead to various consequences, including session hijacking, defacement of web pages, theft of sensitive information, or even the propagation of malware. Version 1.0.1 contains a patch for this issue. To mitigate this vulnerability, the template engine should properly escape special characters, including single quotes. Common practice is to escape `'` as `'`. As a workaround, users can avoid this issue by using only double quotes `"` for HTML attributes.

The weakness was released 05/31/2023 as 157. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-33962 since 05/24/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 7b2f78377d1284df14c580be762a25af5f8dcd66 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• JStachio

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• 1.0

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/jstachio/jstachio/

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