CVE-2014-8488 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8488?

CVE-2014-8488 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 10 Dec 2014. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator panel in Yourls 1.7 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL that is processed by the Shorten functionality.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8488?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Yourls Yourls.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-8488 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2014-8488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j7fj-3fx3-pr27.