Archer Platform up to 6.13 P1 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Archer Platform up to 6.13 P1. This issue affects some unknown processing. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-48642. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Archer Platform up to 6.13 P1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Archer Platform 6.x before 6.13 P2 (6.13.0.2) contains an authenticated HTML content injection vulnerability. A remote authenticated malicious Archer user could potentially exploit this to store malicious HTML code in a trusted application data store. When victim users access the data store through their browsers, the malicious code gets executed by the web browser in the context of the vulnerable application. 6.14 (6.14.0) is also a fixed release.

The weakness was published 12/12/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at archerirm.community. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-48642 since 11/17/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 6.14 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 6.13 P2 is able to eliminate this problem. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Archer

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• 6.13 P1

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