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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-42750

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Rule Engine in ThingsBoard 3.3.1 allows remote attackers (with administrative access) to inject arbitrary JavaScript within the title of a rule node.

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CVE-2021-42750
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31 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-42750

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Aug 2022, 17:15 UTC

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Rule Engine in ThingsBoard 3.3.1 allows remote attackers (with administrative access) to inject arbitrary JavaScript within the title of a rule node.

osv:CVE-2021-42750
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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      ],
      "affected": [
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:55:01.177980724Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard",
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      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 386692,
  "published_at": "2022-08-12T17:15:08.46+00:00"
}