PYSEC-2018-116

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    PYSEC-2018-116

    Published: 17 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Jun 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Airbnb Knowledge Repo 0.7.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML via the post comments functionality, as demonstrated by the post/posts/new_report.kp URI.

    References: https://github.com/airbnb/knowledge-repo/issues/431, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104487, https://pypi.org/project/knowledge-repo, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12104, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xmw7-848p-p95w

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: knowledge-repo

    Purl: pkg:pypi/knowledge-repo

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.7.5

    Affected versions

    0.6.1
    0.6.10
    0.6.11
    0.6.2
    0.6.3
    0.6.4
    0.6.5
    0.6.6
    0.6.7
    0.6.8
    0.6.9

    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