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XSS vulnerability in Jenkins Markdown Formatter Plugin

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 22, 2023

Package

maven io.jenkins.plugins:markdown-formatter (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 0.1.0

Patched versions

0.2.0

Description

Jenkins Markdown Formatter Plugin 0.1.0 and earlier uses a Markdown library to parse Markdown that does not escape crafted link target URLs.

This results in a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exploitable by attackers with the ability to edit any description rendered using the configured markup formatter.

Jenkins Markdown Formatter Plugin 0.2.0 uses a different Markdown library that is not affected by this problem.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 25, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Dec 15, 2022
Last updated Dec 22, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.063%
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21660

GHSA ID

GHSA-xqpp-26pp-2365

Source code

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