OctoberCMS v3.4.0 (About) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Vendor: October CMS
Product web page: https://www.octobercms.com
Affected version: 3.4.0
Summary: OctoberCMS is a self-hosted content management system (CMS)
based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework.
It supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database back end and
uses a flat file database for the front end structure. The October CMS
covers a range of capabilities such as users, permissions, themes, and
plugins, and is seen as a simpler alternative to WordPress.
Desc: OctoberCMS suffers from stored cross-site scripting vulnerability
when a user with the ability to edit the landing/about page. This can
lead to execute arbitrary HTML/JS code in a user's browser session in
context of an affected site.
Tested on: macOS Monterey 12.6.3
           Docker 4.12.0 (85629)
           PHP/8.1.6
Vulnerability discovered by Nazli Soysal Kuran
                            @zeroscience
Advisory ID: ZSL-2023-5803
Advisory URL: https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2023-5803.php
30.10.2023
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Stored XSS (EntryRecord[blocks][1][content]):
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Endpoint: POST /backend/tailor/entries/landing_page
Payload: EntryRecord%5Bblocks%5D%5B1%5D%5Bcontent%5D="<script>alert(1)</script>"