decidim 0.26.10

4 security vulnerabilities found in version 0.26.10

Decidim has a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the version control page

high severity CVE-2024-41673
high severity CVE-2024-41673
Patched versions: >= 0.27.8

Impact

The version control feature used in resources is subject to potential cross-site scripting (XSS) attack through a malformed URL.

Workarounds

Not available

References

OWASP ASVS v4.0.3-5.1.3

Credits

This issue was discovered in a security audit organized by Open Source Politics against Decidim done during July 2025.

Decidim cross-site scripting (XSS) in the pagination

high severity CVE-2024-32469
high severity CVE-2024-32469
Patched versions: ~> 0.27.6, >= 0.28.1

Impact

The pagination feature used in searches and filters is subject to potential XSS attack through a malformed URL using the GET parameter per_page.

Patches

Patched in version 0.27.6 and 0.28.1

References

OWASP ASVS v4.0.3-5.1.3

Credits

This issue was discovered in a security audit organized by the mitgestalten Partizipationsbüro and funded by netidee against Decidim done during April 2024. The security audit was implemented by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH,

Decidim::Admin vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in the admin panel with QuillJS WYSWYG editor

medium severity CVE-2024-39910
medium severity CVE-2024-39910
Patched versions: >= 0.27.7

Impact

The WYSWYG editor QuillJS is subject to potential XSS attach in case the attacker manages to modify the HTML before being uploaded to the server.

The attacker is able to change e.g. to <svg onload=alert('XSS')> if they know how to craft these requests themselves.

Patches

N/A

Workarounds

Review the user accounts that have access to the admin panel (i.e. general Administrators, and participatory space's Administrators) and remove access to them if they don't need it.

Disable the "Enable rich text editor for participants" setting in the admin dashboard.

References

OWASP ASVS v4.0.3-5.1.3

Decidim vulnerable to data disclosure through the embed feature

medium severity CVE-2024-27090
medium severity CVE-2024-27090
Patched versions: >= 0.27.6

Impact

If an attacker can infer the slug or URL of an unpublished or private resource, and this resource can be embedded (such as a Participatory Process, an Assembly, a Proposal, a Result, etc), then some data of this resource could be accessed.

Patches

Version 0.27.6

https://github.com/decidim/decidim/commit/1756fa639ef393ca8e8bb16221cab2e2e7875705

Workarounds

Disallow access through your web server to the URLs finished with /embed.html

No officially reported memory leakage issues detected.


This gem version does not have any officially reported memory leaked issues.

No license issues detected.


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