CVE-2020-15249: Cross-site Scripting
(updated )
October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from and, backend users with access to upload files were permitted to upload SVG files without any sanitization applied to the uploaded files. Since SVG files support being parsed as HTML by browsers, this means that they could theoretically upload Javascript that would be executed on a path under the website’s domain (i.e.
/storage/app/media/evil.svg)
, but they would have to convince their target to visit that location directly in the target’s browser as the backend does not display SVGs inline anywhere, SVGs are only displayed as image resources in the backend and are thus unable to be executed.
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