PT-2020-14233 · Nodebb · Nodebb-Plugin-Blog-Comments

Psychobunny · Published 2020-08-26 · Updated 2020-09-01 · CVE-2020-15156

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nodebb-plugin-blog-comments versions prior to 0.7.0

Description The issue is due to a lack of CSRF validation, making a logged-in user potentially vulnerable to an XSS attack. This could allow a third party to post on the user's behalf on the forum.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.7.0, upgrade to the latest version v0.7.0. As a temporary workaround, you can cherry-pick the commit cf43beedb05131937ef46f365ab0a0c6fa6ac618 to mitigate the issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-15156

GHSA-43M5-C88R-CJVV

Affected Products

Nodebb-Plugin-Blog-Comments

References · 6

• https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/commit/cf43beedb05131937ef46f365ab0a0c6fa6ac618 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15156 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-43m5-c88r-cjvv · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15156 · Security Note
• https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments/security/advisories/GHSA-43m5-c88r-cjvv · Note
• https://npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-blog-comments · Note