Stored XSS via arbitrary HTML in book navigation
Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Apr 29, 2025
Stored XSS in the BlueSpiceBookshelf extension in BlueSpice 4 before 4.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML. The book-navigation rendering path places editor-controlled content into the navigation as arbitrary HTML, but Hallo Welt has not published the exact function or missing encoding operation. Regular accounts need edit permission, and viewing the poisoned navigation exposes other users to attacker-controlled content in the wiki origin.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in the BlueSpiceBookshelf extension in BlueSpice 4 before 4.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary HTML. The book-navigation rendering path places editor-controlled content into the navigation as arbitrary HTML, but Hallo Welt has not published the exact function or missing encoding operation. Regular accounts need edit permission, and viewing the poisoned navigation exposes other users to attacker-controlled content in the wiki origin.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-42001
- Published
- Nov 15, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 29, 2025
- Vendor
- Hallo Welt! GmbH
- Product
- BlueSpice
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 29, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4 <4.2.1
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