XSS in Redmine

CVE-2009-4459

Redmine 0.8.7 and earlier uses the title tag before defining the character encoding in a meta tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and inject arbitrary script via UTF-7 encoded values in the title parameter to a new issue page, which may be interpreted as script by Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.011 (63.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Redmine — versions 0.1.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References