taoso webfeed up to 0.9.1 on Firefox/Chrome cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in taoso webfeed up to 0.9.1 on Firefox/Chrome. It has been classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-50346. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in taoso webfeed up to 0.9.1 on Firefox/Chrome. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation 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:

WebFeed is a lightweight web feed reader extension for Firefox/Chrome. Multiple HTML injection vulnerabilities in WebFeed can lead to CSRF and UI spoofing attacks. A remote attacker can provide malicious RSS feeds and attract the victim user to visit it using WebFeed. The attacker can then inject malicious HTML into the extension page and fool the victim into sending out HTTP requests to arbitrary sites with the victim's credentials. Users are vulnerable to CSRF attacks when visiting malicious RSS feeds via WebFeed. Unwanted actions could be executed on the user's behalf on arbitrary websites. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.9.2. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-50346 since 10/22/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.9.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch a2d1c1c3a98f30e0bd7a1bbcb746fae484985e6d 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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• taoso

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• webfeed

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• 0.9.0
• 0.9.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/taoso/webfeed/

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