Description

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') vulnerability in Enocta Educational Technologies Inc. Enocta Platform allows XSS Targeting HTML Attributes. This issue affects Enocta Platform: through 2026-09-28.

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  "score": "4.1",
  "pubDate": "2026-09-28T13:17:23.113Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-09-28T13:17:23.113Z",
  "executiveSummary": "Enocta Platform is affected by a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation).\nThe vulnerability specifically impacts the platform's handling of HTML attributes, allowing for the injection of arbitrary scripts.\nAffected versions include all iterations of the Enocta Platform up to and including 2026-09-28.\nThis flaw poses a critical risk to user sessions and data integrity, as successful exploitation enables an attacker to execute malicious JavaScript within the security context of a victim's browser session.\nThe vulnerability grants an attacker the capability to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users, capture sensitive session data, or manipulate the Document Object Model (DOM) to facilitate further client-side attacks.\nExploitation generally requires the attacker to successfully inject malicious payloads into inputs that are subsequently reflected within HTML attributes without adequate sanitization or contextual encoding.\nThe scope of impact extends to the compromise of user-specific information and potential account takeover scenarios depending on the platform's session management practices.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability resides in the insufficient sanitization and validation of user-supplied data that is rendered within HTML attributes in the Enocta Platform web interface.\nAt its core, this flaw is a manifestation of improper neutralization of input, wherein the application fails to perform context-aware output encoding. When user input is placed directly into an attribute (such as 'src', 'href', 'title', or custom data attributes), an attacker can break out of the intended attribute context by utilizing characters like double quotes (\"), single quotes ('), or bracket sequences.\nThe attack flow initiates when an attacker submits a crafted payload into an input field or parameter that is later reflected in the HTML source code. For instance, if an attacker supplies an input string designed to terminate an attribute and inject an event handler—such as 'x\" onmouseover=\"alert(document.domain)'—the browser may parse this as an active attribute rather than literal text.\nOnce the payload is rendered, the browser executes the injected JavaScript code upon the occurrence of the specific event trigger (e.g., mouse movement, page load, or focus). Because the script executes within the origin of the Enocta Platform, it inherits full access to the document object, cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage associated with the application.\nFurthermore, this vulnerability facilitates the bypass of potential security controls if the platform relies on client-side logic that can be hijacked or overwritten by the malicious script. The exploitation does not necessarily require advanced administrative privileges, as the impact is realized on the victim's client-side environment regardless of the user's role, though high-privilege targets increase the utility of the exploit for an attacker.\nPost-exploitation, an attacker could implement techniques such as session token exfiltration via automated beacons to a remote server, unauthorized state-changing requests (Cross-Site Request Forgery), or the deployment of a persistent hook that maintains control over the user session. Given that this issue is attribute-focused, the primary root cause remains the application's failure to apply rigorous whitelist-based input validation and contextual output escaping before rendering data to the DOM."
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