| Summary | It was potentially possible for users to inject executable Javascript code within their email address. |
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| Advisory Release Date | 2021-11-18 |
| Product | Linchpin User Profiles |
Affected Versions | Linchpin Intranet Suite 5.1.2 and all prior versions Linchpin Essentials 2.1.2 and all prior versions Linchpin User Profiles 3.1.4 and all prior versions |
| Fixed Versions | Linchpin Intranet Suite 5.1.3 Linchpin Essentials 2.1.3 Linchpin User Profiles 3.1.5 |
Problem
The issue was discovered by Amirmuhammad Vakili via the Atlassian bug bounty program. The researcher could identify that an attacker could potentially inject executable Javascript code within an additional email address field in the user profile.
Affected are the apps Linchpin User Profiles up to and including version 3.1.4, Linchpin Intranet Suite up to and including version 5.1.2 and Linchpin Essentials up to and including version 2.1.2.
Severity
The vulnerability is rated as 8.1 according to CVSS. The score is calculated as CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
Solution
For Linchpin User Profiles customers: Update to Linchpin User Profiles version 3.1.5 or later.
For Linchpin Essentials customers: Update to Linchpin Essentials 2.1.3 or later.
For Linchpin Suite customers: Update to Linchpin Suite 5.1.3 or later.
Should you be unable to update the Linchpin Intranet Suite to one of the listed versions, please reach out to our support team at https://seibert.biz/help.
Link to this page: https://seibert.biz/20211118cvelupxss