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GHSA-m7rg-85g8-28m9 CVE-2009-3633

TYPO3 API function vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Medium Packagist
Severity
Medium
The publisher's own rating, not a CVSS score
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.95%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 61.28% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Fix
4.1.13
Upgrade typo3/cms-core to this version or later

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the t3lib_div::quoteJSvalue API function in TYPO3 4.0.13 and earlier, 4.1.x before 4.1.13, 4.2.x before 4.2.10, and 4.3.x before 4.3beta2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to the sanitizing algorithm.

Affected versions

Packagist

PackageVulnerableFixed in
typo3/cms-core
<= 4.0.13
No fix yet
typo3/cms-core
>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.13
4.1.13
typo3/cms-core
>= 4.2.0, < 4.2.10
4.2.10
typo3/cms-core
>= 4.3alpha1, < 4.3beta2
4.3beta2

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

typo3/cms-core Packagist → 4.1.13

composer
composer require typo3/cms-core:^4.1.13

Weakness

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid [REF-1482]. For example, use anti-CSRF packages such as the OWASP CSRFGuard. [REF-330] Another example is the ESAPI Session Management control, which includes a component for CSRF. [REF-45]
  • Implementation: Ensure that the application is free of cross-site scripting issues (CWE-79), because most CSRF defenses can be bypassed using attacker-controlled script.
  • Architecture and Design: Generate a unique nonce for each form, place the nonce into the form, and verify the nonce upon receipt of the form. Be sure that the nonce is not predictable (CWE-330). [REF-332]
  • Architecture and Design: Identify especially dangerous operations. When the user performs a dangerous operation, send a separate confirmation request to ensure that the user intended to perform that operation.
  • Architecture and Design: Use the "double-submitted cookie" method as described by Felten and Zeller: When a user visits a site, the site should generate a pseudorandom value and set it as a cookie on the user's machine. The site should require every form submission to include this value as a form value and also as a cookie value. When a POST request is sent to the site, the request should only be considered valid if the form value and the cookie value are the same. Because of the same-origin policy, an attacker cannot read or modify the value stored in the cookie. To successfully submit a form on behalf of the user, the attacker would have to correctly guess the pseudorandom value. If the pseudorandom value is cryptographically strong, this will be prohibitively difficult. This technique requires Javascript, so it may not work for browsers that have Javascript disabled. [REF-331]
  • Architecture and Design: Do not use the GET method for any request that triggers a state change.
  • Implementation: Check the HTTP Referer header to see if the request originated from an expected page. This could break legitimate functionality, because users or proxies may have disabled sending the Referer for privacy reasons.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-68jx-f42c-7599
TYPO3 CMS - Broken Access Control in Backend and Install Tool
High Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-chm7-4vch-h8vr
TYPO3 CMS has Broken Access Control in its Media Module
High Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-jh32-v29g-68pq
TYPO3 CMS has Privilege Escalation & SQL Injection in its Form Framework
High Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-c78m-c52x-jgwp
TYPO3 CMS has Insecure Deserialization via Core API
Medium Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-jf56-v8jc-jcc5
TYPO3 CMS has Broken Access Control in its File Abstraction Layer
Low Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-2j54-93q2-3hjq
TYPO3 CMS has Broken Access Control in Backend API
Medium Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-q93m-25xv-94hh
TYPO3 CMS: Broken Access Control in Media Module
Medium Also affects typo3/cms-core
GHSA-qcmw-6rm2-5x78
TYPO3 CMS has Broken Access Control in its DataHandler
Medium Also affects typo3/cms-core
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