XSS vulnerability in JSoup (CVE-2015-6748) 

Issue date: 26-04-2018
Affects versions: 12.2, 11.2, 10.2

Issue ID: SECURITY-50

Affected Product Version(s)
This vulnerability affects all versions of both CMS and delivery applications based on Hippo CMS prior to 12.3.0, 12.2.1, 11.2.7, and 10.2.11.

Severity 
medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in jsoup before 1.8.3. See: CVE-2015-6748

This vulnerability is classified with severity medium. Although default usage of this library within the Hippo CMS product is not vulnerable, project specific usages of the JSoup library within a Hippo CMS project may be vulnerable.

The JSoup version in all supported CMS maintenance versions 10.2.11, 11.2.7, 12.2.1, and 12.3.0 has been updated to version 1.11.2.

Instructions

Every CMS customer is strongly advised to upgrade as soon as possible to the latest CMS maintenance release as indicated above, or higher.

Because the upgrade for these CMS maintenance versions may require some additonal steps and verification, specific upgrade documentation is available to our customers for upgrading to version 10.2.11, 11.2.7, or to 12.2.1 and 12.3.0 (login required).