Server side cross-site scripting In gogs.io/gogs

Description

Gogs: DOM-based XSS via milestone selection

Summary

It was confirmed in a test environment that an attacker can store an HTML/JavaScript payload in a repository’s Milestone name, and when another user selects that Milestone on the New Issue page (/issues/new), a DOM-Based XSS is triggered.

Impact

    Theft of information accessible in the victim’s session.

    Extraction of CSRF tokens and submission of state-changing requests with the victim’s privileges.

    Repository operations performed with the victim’s privileges (Issue operations, settings changes, etc.).

(The impact scope depends on the victim’s permission level.)

Remediation

A fix is available at https://github.com/gogs/gogs/releases/tag/v0.14.2

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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