Security Fix for Stored-XSS on "ChatCord" - huntr.dev #18
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https://huntr.dev/users/alromh87 has fixed the Stored-XSS on "ChatCord" vulnerability 🔨. alromh87 has been awarded $25 for fixing the vulnerability through the huntr bug bounty program 💵. Think you could fix a vulnerability like this?
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Q | A
Version Affected | ALL
Bug Fix | YES
Original Pull Request | 418sec#1
Vulnerability README | https://github.com/418sec/huntr/blob/master/bounties/other/chatcord/1/README.md
User Comments:
📊 Metadata *
Bounty URL: https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-other-chatcord
⚙️ Description *
There is no proper sanitization of some data received from server making code injection available to malicious user, if traffic is intercepted and modified.
💻 Technical Description *
Fixed by replacing the use of innerHTML() for innerText() efectively treating incoming data as text and not html elements.
🐛 Proof of Concept (PoC) *
XSS triggered !!!
Proof of Fix (PoF) *
After fix data is treated as text and No code is executed for remote user
👍 User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
After fix functionality is unafected