IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3/9.0 Email Notification text cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3/9.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Email Notification Handler. The manipulation of the argument text leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-49337. 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 IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3/9.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Email Notification Handler. The manipulation of the argument text with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages is vulnerable to HTML injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input of text fields used to construct workflow email notifications. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using HTML tags in a text field of an object to inject malicious script into an email which would be executed in a victim's mail client within the security context of the OpenPages mail message. An attacker could use this for phishing or identity theft attacks.

It is possible to read the advisory at ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-49337 since 10/14/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• IBM

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• OpenPages with Watson

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• 8.3
• 9.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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