withastro up to 4.16.0 cross site scripting

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in withastro astro up to 4.16.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-47885. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in withastro astro up to 4.16.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Astro web framework has a DOM Clobbering gadget in the client-side router starting in version 3.0.0 and prior to version 4.16.1. It can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) in websites enables Astro's client-side routing and has *stored* attacker-controlled scriptless HTML elements (i.e., `iframe` tags with unsanitized `name` attributes) on the destination pages. This vulnerability can result in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on websites that built with Astro that enable the client-side routing with `ViewTransitions` and store the user-inserted scriptless HTML tags without properly sanitizing the `name` attributes on the page. Version 4.16.1 contains a patch for this issue.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-47885 since 10/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 4.16.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a4ffbfaa5cb460c12bd486fd75e36147f51d3e5e 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-3078). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• withastro

Name

• astro

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/withastro/astro/

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