GHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8

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    GHSA-x5hj-47vv-53p8

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 12 Apr 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2013-4940

    Summary: YUI Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in io.swf in the IO Utility component in Yahoo! YUI 3.10.2, as used in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2013-4939 regression.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4940, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496, https://web.archive.org/web/20130909203912/http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability, http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-39678

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yui

    Purl: pkg:npm/yui

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 3.0.0
    Fixed -3.10.11

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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