Cross site scripting vulnerability for private chat in bigbluebutton
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. In affected versions an attacker can embed malicious JS in their username and have it executed on the victim's client. When a user receives a private chat from the attacker (whose username contains malicious JavaScript), the script gets executed. Additionally when the victim receives a notification that the attacker has left the session. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.8 and 2.5.0. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-31065
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 4 Nov 2026, 04:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cross site scripting vulnerability for private chat in bigbluebutton
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 27 Jun 2022, 19:45 UTC
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. In affected versions an attacker can embed malicious JS in their username and have it executed on the victim's client. When a user receives a private chat from the attacker (whose username contains malicious JavaScript), the script gets executed. Additionally when the victim receives a notification that the attacker has left the session. This issue has been patched in version 2.4.8 and 2.5.0. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
osv:CVE-2022-31065
Complete source record
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