Atlassian Confluence: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2017-16856)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
12/05/2017
04/24/2019
04/22/2019
03/08/2023
Description
The RSS Feed macro in Atlassian Confluence before version 6.5.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or JavaScript via cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in various rss properties which were used as links without restriction on their scheme.
Solution(s)
- atlassian-confluence-upgrade-6_5_2
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