Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Mastodon vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through oEmbed preview cards
CVE-2023-36459
Description
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Starting in version 1.3 and prior to versions 3.5.9, 4.0.5, and 4.1.3, an attacker using carefully crafted oEmbed data can bypass the HTML sanitization performed by Mastodon and include arbitrary HTML in oEmbed preview cards. This introduces a vector for cross-site scripting (XSS) payloads that can be rendered in the user's browser when a preview card for a malicious link is clicked through. Versions 3.5.9, 4.0.5, and 4.1.3 contain a patch for this issue.
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References
6- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/6d8e0fae3e96f3cf4febe03fa7fcf5b95ff761b2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.9mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.5mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.3mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-ccm4-vgcc-73hpmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/06/5mitre
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