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CVE-2024-21496

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

All versions of the package github.com/greenpau/caddy-security are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the Referer header, due to improper input sanitization. Although the Referer header is sanitized by escaping some characters that can allow XSS (e.g., [&], [<], [>], ["], [']), it does not account for the attack based on the JavaScript URL scheme (e.g., javascript:alert(document.domain)// payload). Exploiting this vulnerability may not be trivial, but it could lead to the execution of malicious scripts in the context of the target user’s browser, compromising user sessions.

Affected products

• Authcrunch Caddy-Security: all versions

References

• https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/09/18/security-flaws-in-an-sso-plugin-for-caddy/
• https://github.com/greenpau/caddy-security/issues/267
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGREENPAUCADDYSECURITY-6249860
• https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/09/18/security-flaws-in-an-sso-plugin-for-caddy/
• https://github.com/greenpau/caddy-security/issues/267
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGREENPAUCADDYSECURITY-6249860

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