{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-35228 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-35228 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-35228 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SolarWinds, published on 21 Oct 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-35228 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-35228 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in SolarWinds, published on 21 Oct 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-35228 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: SolarWinds. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35228/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35228/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-35228","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35228/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-35228","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j8cq-p5c8-344h"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SolarWinds DPA","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Reflected XSS in SolarWinds DPA allows attackers to execute scripts via manipulated headers, requiring a Man-in-the-Middle position.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"SolarWinds","cpe":[{"product":"database_performance_analyzer","vendor":"solarwinds"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"This vulnerability occurred due to missing input sanitization for one of the output fields that is extracted from headers on specific section of page causing a reflective cross site scripting attack. An attacker would need to perform a Man in the Middle attack in order to change header for a remote victim.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Reflected cross site scripting affecting SolarWinds: DPA 2021.3.7388","id":"CVE-2021-35228","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability using SQL Query","id":"CVE-2021-35229"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Insecure Web Configuration for RabbitMQ Management Plugin in SolarWinds ARM","id":"CVE-2021-35227"},"products":["SolarWinds"],"published":"2021-10-21","related":[{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"No Exception Handling Vulnerability: Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2023.1","id":"CVE-2023-23837","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-25"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-38112","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-20"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability using SQL Query","id":"CVE-2021-35229","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-04-21"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Directory traversal and file enumeration vulnerability: Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2023.1","id":"CVE-2023-23838","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-25"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"XSS in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer 2023.2","id":"CVE-2023-33231","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-18"},{"cvss_score":6.1,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-19386","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-08-14"},{"cvss_score":5.6,"headline":"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-26398","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-08-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["SolarWinds"]},"summary":"Reflected XSS in SolarWinds DPA allows attackers to execute scripts via manipulated headers, requiring a Man-in-the-Middle position.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35228/"}