High [CVE-2024-21678] Confluence Data Center: This High severity Stored XSS vulnerability was introduced in version 2.7.0 of Confluence Data Center.
This high-severity Atlassian advisory covers CVE-2024-21678 affecting Confluence Data Center, Confluence Server.
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Summary
This High severity Stored XSS vulnerability was introduced in version 2.7.0 of Confluence Data Center.
This Stored XSS vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.5, allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary HTML or JavaScript code on a victims browser which has high impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.
Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to the latest version. If you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions:
||Affected versions||Fixed versions|| |from 8.7.0 to 8.7.1|8.8.0 recommended or 8.7.2|
Server
See the release notes ([ ]). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center from the download center ([ ]).
This vulnerability was reported via our Bug Bounty program.
Affected products named by the advisory: Confluence Server.
- 8.7.0
- 8.6.0
- 8.5.0
- 8.4.0
- 8.3.0
- 8.2.0
- 8.1.0
- 8.0.0
- 7.20.0
- 7.19.0
- 7.18.0
- 7.17.0
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
The source record does not include mitigation steps. That is not a statement that no fix exists — read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.
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