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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22261

A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the Jira integration in all GitLab versions starting from 13.9 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, and all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's behalf via malicious Jira API responses

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CVE-2021-22261
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1 Nov 2026, 07:56 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-22261

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Oct 2021, 14:15 UTC

A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the Jira integration in all GitLab versions starting from 13.9 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, and all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's behalf via malicious Jira API responses

osv:CVE-2021-22261
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22261",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-22261",
    "summary": "A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the Jira integration in all GitLab versions starting from 13.9 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, and all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the victim's behalf via malicious Jira API responses",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22261",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2021-22261",
        "CVE-2021-22261"
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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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      ],
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          "versions": [
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:57.999570609Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22261.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/328389",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/1132083"
      ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439608,
  "published_at": "2021-10-05T14:15:07.677+00:00"
}