CVE-2018-1000516

MEDIUM

Galaxy < 14.10.1 - Cross-Site Scripting via User Input in Templates

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Galaxy Project Galaxy version v14.10 contains a CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability in Many templates used in the Galaxy server did not properly sanitize user's input, which would allow for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. In this form of attack, a malicious person can create a URL which, when opened by a Galaxy user or administrator, would allow the malicious user to execute arbitrary Javascript. that can result in Arbitrary JavaScript code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must interact with component on page witch contains injected JavaScript code.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v14.10.1, v15.01.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0104
EPSS Percentile 60.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
galaxyproject/galaxy 14.10
pypi/galaxy-app 0 - 14.10.1PyPI
Published Jun 26, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026