Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2020-36956

Description

Openfire 4.6.0 contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the nodejs plugin that allows attackers to inject malicious scripts through the 'path' parameter. Attackers can craft a payload with script tags to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of administrative users viewing the nodejs configuration page.

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Affected products

Igniterealtime/Openfirereferences2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: = 4.6.0

Patches

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References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49229nvd
www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/nvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openfire-path-stored-xssnvd

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