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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

SAML Consumer Service XSS vulnerability

Description

The web application uses SAML. The web application's SAML Consumer Service is vulnerable to XSS due to lack of sanitization of values from SAMLResponse.
An unauthenticated attacker may be able to use it to attack other users.

Remediation

Apply context-dependent sanitization to SAMLResponse values rendered on a page

References

Cross Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-80 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Tags

XSS

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