SB2022100608 - Cross-site scripting in IBM Robotic Process Automation 

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SB2022100608 - Cross-site scripting in IBM Robotic Process Automation

Published: October 6, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022100608
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31160)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when initializing a checkboxradio widget on an input enclosed within a label makes that parent label contents considered as the input label. If .checkboxradio( "refresh" ) is called on such a widget and the initial HTML contains encoded HTML entities, they will erroneously get decoded and executed. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References