Browser script execution via direct macro eval
Published Jan 23, 2023 · Updated Apr 2, 2025
Cross-site scripting in ONLYOFFICE allows remote attackers to execute JavaScript in an editor user's browser through a malicious document macro. The editor parses macro data from the document, concatenates the stored macro value into a function wrapper, and passes the result directly to eval(). A target must open a document containing attacker-controlled macro data; the script then runs in the embedding service's web origin and can read data or perform actions available to that session.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site scripting in ONLYOFFICE allows remote attackers to execute JavaScript in an editor user's browser through a malicious document macro. The editor parses macro data from the document, concatenates the stored macro value into a function wrapper, and passes the result directly to eval(). A target must open a document containing attacker-controlled macro data; the script then runs in the embedding service's web origin and can read data or perform actions available to that session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-43446
- Published
- Jan 23, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 2, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 23, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 2, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- pwnlyoffice macro injection demonstrationfunctional · demonstrated
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