eLabFTW up to 4.x Files cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in eLabFTW up to 4.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Files Handler. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-28100. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in eLabFTW up to 4.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown part of the component Files Handler. 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:

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. By uploading specially crafted files, a regular user can create a circumstance where a visitor's browser runs arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the eLabFTW application. This can be triggered by the visitor viewing a list of experiments. Viewing this allows the malicious script to act on behalf of the visitor in any way, including the creation of API keys for persistence, or other options normally available to the user. If the user viewing the page has the sysadmin role in eLabFTW, the script can act as a sysadmin (including system configuration and extensive user management roles). Users are advised to upgrade to at least version 5.0.0. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-28100 since 03/04/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. 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 5.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• eLabFTW

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• 4.x

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

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