GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/04/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q

Aliases

CVE-2022-24891

Published

2022-04-27T21:09:46Z

Modified

2025-11-04T00:21:30Z

Severity

6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Cross-site Scripting in org.owasp.esapi:esapi

Details

Impact

There is a potential for an XSS vulnerability in ESAPI caused by a incorrect regular expression for "onsiteURL" in the antisamy-esapi.xml configuration file that can cause URLs with the "javascript:" scheme to NOT be sanitized. See the reference below for full details.

Patches

Patched in ESAPI 2.3.0.0 and later. See important remediation details in the reference given below.

Workarounds

Manually edit your antisamy-esapi.xml configuration files to change the "onsiteURL" regular expression as per remediation instructions in the reference below.

References

Security Bulletin 8

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email one of the project co-leaders. See email addresses listed on the OWASP ESAPI wiki page, under "Leaders".
Send email to one of the two ESAPI related Google Groups listed under Where to Find More Information on ESAPI on our README.md page.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-04-27T21:09:46Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-04-27T21:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.owasp.esapi:esapi

Package

Name: org.owasp.esapi:esapi; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.owasp.esapi/esapi

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.3.0.0

Affected versions

2.*

2.0GA

2.0_rc9

2.0_rc10

2.0_rc11

2.0.1

2.1.0

2.1.0.1

2.2.0.0-RC2

2.2.0.0-RC3

2.2.0.0

2.2.1.0-RC1

2.2.1.0

2.2.1.1

2.2.2.0

2.2.3.0

2.2.3.1

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"<= 2.2.3.1"

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/04/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q/GHSA-q77q-vx4q-xx6q.json"