CVE-2021-3816 (GCVE-0-2021-3816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-19 20:38 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:09
VLAI
Summary
Cacti 1.1.38 allows authenticated users with User Management permissions to inject arbitrary HTML in the group_prefix field during the creation of a new group via "Copy" method at user_group_admin.php.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.cacti.net/info/changelog x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Cacti Affected: 1.1.38
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