What is CVE-2021-41791?

CVE-2021-41791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alfresco Community Share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-10-21.

How severe is CVE-2021-41791?

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

XSS in Alfresco Community Share

CVE-2021-41791

An issue was discovered in Hyland org.alfresco:share through 7.0.0.2 and org.alfresco:community-share through 7.0. An evasion of the XSS filter for HTML input validation in the Alfresco Share User Interface leads to stored XSS that could be exploited by an attacker (given that he has privileges on the content collaboration features).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.9th 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

Alfresco Community_share
Alfresco Share — versions 7.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-41791?: CVE-2021-41791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Alfresco Community Share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-10-21.
How severe is CVE-2021-41791?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.