Medium
Security advisory
Apereo CAS through 6.4.1 allows XSS via POST requests sent to the REST API endpoints.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-42567
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Apereo CAS through 6.4.1 allows XSS via POST requests sent to the REST API endpoints.
osv:CVE-2021-42567
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:55:00.823040383Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://apereo.github.io/2021/10/18/restvuln/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 386678,
"published_at": "2021-12-07T22:15:06.907+00:00"
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