CVE-2019-13647 — Firefly III before 4

Firefly III before 4.7.17.3 is vulnerable to stored XSS due to lack of filtration of user-supplied data in image file content. The JavaScript code is executed during attachments/view/$file_id$ attachment viewing. NOTE: It is asserted that an attacker must have the same access rig

01What is this vulnerability?

Firefly III before 4.7.17.3 is vulnerable to stored XSS due to lack of filtration of user-supplied data in image file content. The JavaScript code is executed during attachments/view/$file_id$ attachment viewing. NOTE: It is asserted that an attacker must have the same access rights as the user in order to be able to execute the vulnerability

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-07-18T02:17:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:57:39.530Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/compare/a70b7cc...7d482aa
• github.com — https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/issues/2338