ejschmitt / delayed_job_web

Resque like web interface for delayed job
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XSS vulnerability in filter functionality (CVE-2017-12097) #101

Closed mveytsman closed 6 years ago

mveytsman commented 6 years ago

from https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0449


An exploitable XSS vulnerability exists in the filter functionality of the delayed_job_web rails gem version 1.4. A specially crafted URL can cause an XSS flaw resulting in an attacker being able to execute arbitrary javascript on the victim’s browser. An attacker can phish an authenticated user to trigger this vulnerability.

The delayed_job_web gem allows users to filter output based on the query string of the GET request. This looks similar to.

localhost:3000/delayed_job/overview?queues=">+ Githubissues.

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