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CVE-2021-32671

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
10.0
EPSS
0.39738
Risk score
53.91
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2021-06-07
Modified
2024-08-03
First seen
2026-08-08
Aliases
EUVD-2021-1271, GHSA-5QJQ-69W6-FG57
Products
OPNsense:core 1.0.0, < 1.0.2
Sources
euvd EUVD-2021-1271

Description

Flarum is a forum software for building communities. Flarum's translation system allowed for string inputs to be converted into HTML DOM nodes when rendered. This change was made after v0.1.0-beta.16 (our last beta before v1.0.0) and was not noticed or documented. This allowed for any user to type malicious HTML markup within certain user input fields and have this execute on client browsers. The example which led to the discovery of this vulnerability was in the forum search box. Entering faux-malicious HTML markup, such as <script>alert('test')</script> resulted in an alert box appearing on the forum. This attack could also be modified to perform AJAX requests on behalf of a user, possibly deleting discussions, modifying their settings or profile, or even modifying settings on the Admin panel if the attack was targetted towards a privileged user. All Flarum communities that run flarum v1.0.0 or v1.0.1 are impacted. The vulnerability has been fixed and published as flarum/core v1.0.2. All communities running Flarum v1.0 have to upgrade as soon as possible to v1.0.2.

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