What is CVE-2021-40888?

CVE-2021-40888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Projectsend, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-10-11.

How severe is CVE-2021-40888?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Projectsend

CVE-2021-40888

Projectsend version r1295 is affected by Cross Site Scripting (XSS) due to lack of sanitization when echo output data in returnFilesIds() function. A low privilege user can call this function through process.php file and execute scripting code.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (46.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Projectsend — versions r1295
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-40888?: CVE-2021-40888 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Projectsend, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-10-11.
How severe is CVE-2021-40888?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.