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Symfony potential Cross-site Scripting in WebhookController

  • Disclosed: 12.11.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Description

The error message in WebhookController returns unescaped user-submitted input.

Resolution

WebhookController now doesn't return any user-submitted input in its response.

The patch for this issue is available here for branch 6.3.

Credits

We would like to thank Maxime Aknin for reporting the issue and to Nicolas Grekas for providing the fix.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package symfony/symfony >= 6.3.0, < 6.3.8 6.3.8
Composer package symfony/webhook >= 6.3.0, < 6.3.8 6.3.8

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Composer
Package
symfony/symfony, symfony/webhook
Disclosed
12.11.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-72x2-5c85-6wmr - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: symfony/webhook

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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