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CVE-2021-30140 (GCVE-0-2021-30140)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-06 15:46 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:24
VLAI
Summary
LiquidFiles 3.4.15 has stored XSS through the "send email" functionality when sending a file via email to an administrator. When a file has no extension and contains malicious HTML / JavaScript content (such as SVG with HTML content), the payload is executed upon a click. This is fixed in 3.5.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:N/C:L/I:L/PR:L/S:C/UI:R
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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