CVE-2024-47882CWE-79CWE-81

OpenRefine's error page lacks escaping, leading to potential Cross-site Scripting on import of malicious project

Medium · published October 24, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. Prior to version 3.8.3, the built-in "Something went wrong!" error page includes the exception message and exception traceback without escaping HTML tags, enabling injection into the page if an attacker can reliably produce an error with an attacker-influenced message. It appears that the only way to reach this code in OpenRefine itself is for an attacker to somehow convince a victim to import a malicious file, which may be difficult. However, out-of-tree extensions may add their own calls to `respondWithErrorPage`. Version 3.8.3 has a fix for this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00510 · 42.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'); CWE-81 · Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page
Published
2024-10-24T20:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 OCT 20:35Z
    OpenRefine's error page lacks escaping, leading to potential Cross-site Scripting on import of malicious project
    cvelistv5