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CMU CERT/CC VINCE v2.0.6 Stored XSS

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2025-5917
Release Date
10 February 2025
Vendor
Carnegie Mellon University - https://www.kb.cert.org
Affected Version
<=2.0.6
CVE
N/A
Tested On
nginx/1.20.0, Django 3.2.17
Summary

VINCE is the Vulnerability Information and Coordination Environment developed and used by the CERT Coordination Center to improve coordinated vulnerability disclosure. VINCE is a Python-based web platform.

Description

The framework suffers from an authenticated stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. Input passed to the 'content' POST parameter is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML/JS code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
13.01.2023Vulnerability discovered.
13.01.2023Vendor informed.
30.03.2023Vendor releases version 2.0.7 to address this issue.
10.02.2025Public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
10.02.2025Initial release
09.05.2025Added reference [3]