195 – Lack of data validation - Headers
Description
In the source code the information of some HTTP headers is not being validated, so different values could be injected in order to achieve some XSS attack or compromise the integrity of the stored information.
Impact
Inject potentially dangerous characters into application fields.
Recommendation
Validate on the server side the types of data that are entered into different kind of fields in the application.
Threat
Authorized user from the Internet.
Expected Remediation Time
Score 4.0
Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base 4.0
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: L
- Attack Requirements: N
- Privileges required: L
- User interaction: N
- Confidentiality (VC): N
- Integrity (VI): L
- Availability (VA): N
- Confidentiality (SC): N
- Integrity (SI): N
- Availability (SA): N
Threat 4.0
- Exploit maturity: P