Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Magento Commerce Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Magento.

Magento is an e-commerce platform written in PHP. According to the Alexa top 1M e-commerce platforms for 2018, the e-commerce platform Magento Commerce currently enjoys more than a 14% market share, making it the second largest e-commerce platform in the world.

A XSS vulnerability has been discovered in Magento Commerce 2.1 prior to 2.1.16, Magento Commerce 2.2 prior to 2.2.7. It is caused by failing to sanitize user-supplied data before inserting it into a dynamically generated widget form.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Adobe.Magento.Widget.XSS
Released Oct 03, 2018

Users should apply the solution provided by Magento.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Magento on September 27, 2018.

Magento confirmed the vulnerability on October 1, 2018.

Magento patched the vulnerability on November 28, 2018.

References

• https://magento.com/security/patches/magento-2.2.7-and-2.1.16-security-update
  

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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