CVE-2024-46976 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-46976

Circumvention of cross site scripting Protection in @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend

Vulnerability Description

Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. An attacker with control of the contents of the TechDocs storage buckets is able to inject executable scripts in the TechDocs content that will be executed in the victim's browser when browsing documentation or navigating to an attacker provided link. This has been fixed in the 1.10.13 release of the `@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend` package. users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

backstage
Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.10.13

Timeline

Official Publish: September 17th, 2024
Last Modified: September 18th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-693

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact