THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-28378
LOW SEVERITY

CVE-2021-28378

Gitea vulnerability

CVSS
3.7
EPSS
8.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Gitea 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 allows XSS via certain issue data in some situations.
Affected vendor
Gitea
Affected product
Gitea
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2021-03-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-28378

  • Confirm whether Gitea Gitea is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-28378.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2021-28378

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2021-28378 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2021-28378?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2021-28378.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

LOW
CVE-2012-6502
Internet Explorer vulnerability
LOW
CVE-2013-0169
Openssl vulnerability
LOW
CVE-2013-1290
Sharepoint Server vulnerability