[ensembl-dev] XSS Vulnerability in web frontend

Ben Warren Ben.Warren at plantandfood.co.nz
Thu Oct 9 03:53:29 BST 2014


Hi All,

I am trying to host an EnsEMBL instance which will be open to public access. I have been told(by a security audit) that there is a cross-site scripting vulnerability  in the EnsEMBL frontend.

As far as I understand this could allow the web content to be altered by a URL with markup(HTML) code in it. Is this a risk I should be worried about? Is there some documentation regarding EnsEMBL web security which I should be reading?


Kind Regards

Benjamin

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