Publify up to 10.0.0 on Rails cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Publify up to 10.0.0 on Rails. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-39311. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Publify up to 10.0.0 on Rails. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. 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:

Publify is a self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails. Prior to version 10.0.1 of Publify, corresponding to versions prior to 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem, publisher on a `publify` application is able to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an administrator using the redirect functionality. The exploitation of this XSS vulnerability requires the administrator to click a malicious link. An attack could attempt to hide their payload by using HTML, or other encodings, as to not make it obvious to an administrator that this is a malicious link. A publisher may attempt to use this vulnerability to escalate their privileges and become an administrator. Version 10.0.1 of Publify and version 10.0.2 of the `publify_core` rubygem fix the issue.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-39311 since 06/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. 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 10.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Publify

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• 10.0

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

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