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MEDIUM 6.1

GHSA-wf6c-hrhf-86cw

NocoDB Vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting on Reset Password Page

Details

### Summary

The API endpoint related to the password reset function is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting.

### Details

Throughout the source-code analysis, it has been found that the endpoint /api/v1/db/auth/password/reset/:tokenId is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site-Scripting. The flaw occurs due to implementation of the client-side template engine ejs, specifically on file resetPassword.ts where the template is using the insecure function “<%-“ https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/ba5a191b33259d984fc92df225f7d82ede2ddb56/packages/nocodb/src/modules/auth/ui/auth/resetPassword.ts#L71 which is rendered by the function renderPasswordReset: https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/ba5a191b33259d984fc92df225f7d82ede2ddb56/packages/nocodb/src/modules/auth/auth.controller.ts#L251

### PoC

Send the request below to a vulnerable instance: `/api/v1/db/auth/password/reset/asdsad%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E%61%6C%65%72%74%28%31%29%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E/`

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/28d8e7c6-efb9-49df-b049-56dab229d74f)

### Impact

The vulnerability affect end-users, allowing an attacker to craft and send a malicious link to the victim which leads running script on their browser.

### Credits [l34k3d](https://github.com/xL34K3D) [ottoboni](https://github.com/gabrielott)

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Affected packages

npm / nocodb
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 0.258.0
Fix npm install nocodb@0.258.0

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