CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability affects the AIL Project's Java-based application, specifically in the translation controls for chat messages and forum posts, where user-supplied identifiers are improperly handled in JavaScript event handlers. This flaw allows an attacker to inject arbitrary JavaScript by crafting malicious identifiers, potentially leading to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that execute in the context of the victim's browser. Organizations using this application should prioritize remediation, especially those with analysts frequently interacting with chat and forum features, to mitigate the risk of exploitation.
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Original NVD Description
AIL Project contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the translation controls displayed for chat messages and forum posts. The affected templates inserted message and post identifiers directly into inline JavaScript onclick handlers: onclick="translateMessageToPreferredLanguage('{{ message['id'] }}', '{{ mess_id_escape }}', this)" and: onclick="translatePostToPreferredLanguage('{{ post['id'] }}', '{{ post_id_escape }}', this)" These values were HTML-template escaped but were not safely encoded for use as JavaScript string literals inside an HTML attribute. A specially crafted identifier containing quotation marks, escape characters, or other JavaScript syntax could therefore terminate the expected string argument and inject arbitrary JavaScript into the event handler. Because the affected values are associated with indexed chat messages or forum posts, a malicious value may remain stored by AIL and be rendered whenever an analyst accesses the corresponding chat or forum explorer view. Successful exploitation requires the victim to click the affected Translate to preferred language button. The injected code would then execute in the victim’s browser under the security origin of the AIL instance.