CVE-2021-32855 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Vditor is a browser-side Markdown editor. Versions prior to 3.8.7 are vulnerable to copy-paste cross-site scripting (XSS). For this particular type of XSS, the victim needs to be fooled into copying a malicious payload into the text editor. Version 3.8.7 contains a patch for this issue.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
B3log	Vditor

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:b3log:vditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Vanessa219/vditor/commit/1b2382d7f8a4ee509d9245db4450d926a0b24146
https://github.com/Vanessa219/vditor/issues/1085
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-1006-vditor/

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:08:46.394Z

Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-32855

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T23:33:56.029Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-21T15:15:11.267

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:07:53.530

Link: CVE-2021-32855

Redhat

No data.

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