Cross-site Scripting in October
### Impact Pasting content copied from malicious websites into the Froala richeditor could result in a successful self-XSS attack. ### Patches Issue has been patched in Build 467 (v1.0.467). ### Workarounds Apply https://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/b384954a29b89117e1c0d6035b3ede4f46df67c5 to your installation manually if unable to upgrade to Build 467. ### References - https://research.securitum.com/the-curious-case-of-copy-paste/ ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at [hello@octobercms.com](mailto:hello@octobercms.com) ### Threat Assessment Assessed as Low given that by the nature of the attack it can only impact users that do it to themselves by copying and pasting from malicious websites. ### Acknowledgements Thanks to [Michał Bentkowski of Securitum](https://research.securitum.com/authors/michal-bentkowski/) for finding the original issue in Froala and @tomaszstrojny for reporting the issue to the October CMS team.
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-4061US | medium5.4 | — | ||
In October from version 1.0.319 and before version 1.0.467, pasting content copied from malicious websites into the Froala richeditor could result in a successful self-XSS attack.… | ||||
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