CVE-2021-21422

HIGH

mongo-express < 0.54.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Unescaped Document Rendering

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

mongo-express is a web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express. 1: As mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577, when the content of a cell grows larger than supported size, clicking on a row will show full document unescaped, however this needs admin interaction on cell. 2: Data cells identified as media will be rendered as media, without being sanitized. Example of different renders: image, audio, video, etc. As an example of type 1 attack, an unauthorized user who only can send a large amount of data in a field of a document may use a payload with embedded javascript. This could send an export of a collection to the attacker without even an admin knowing. Other types of attacks such as dropping a database\collection are possible.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0157
EPSS Percentile 72.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (3)
mongo-express_project/mongo-express 1.0.0 alpha1 (2 CPE variants)
mongo-express_project/mongo-express < 0.54.0
npm/mongo-express 0 - 1.0.0-alpha.4npm
Published Jun 21, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026