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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2023· Updated Sep 24, 2024

Mastodon vulnerable to Stored XSS through the translation feature

CVE-2023-42452

Description

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. In versions on the 4.x branch prior to versions 4.0.10, 4.2.8, and 4.2.0-rc2, under certain conditions, attackers can abuse the translation feature to bypass the server-side HTML sanitization, allowing unescaped HTML to execute in the browser. The impact is limited thanks to Mastodon's strict Content Security Policy, blocking inline scripts, etc. However a CSP bypass or loophole could be exploited to execute malicious XSS. Furthermore, it requires user interaction, as this can only occur upon clicking the “Translate” button on a malicious post. Versions 4.0.10, 4.2.8, and 4.2.0-rc2 contain a patch for this issue.

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Affected products

3
  • Mastodon/Mastodonllm-fuzzy2 versions
    <4.0.10, <4.2.8, <4.2.0-rc2+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <4.0.10, <4.2.8, <4.2.0-rc2
    • (no CPE)range: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.10
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.10

Patches

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References

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