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Cross site scripting vulnerability for private chat in bigbluebutton

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

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CVEs
CVE-2022-31065
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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 source

Published 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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    "title": "Cross site scripting vulnerability for private chat in bigbluebutton",
    "summary": "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.",
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  "published_at": "2022-06-27T19:45:21+00:00"
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