VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-28378
Gitea 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 allows XSS via certain issue data in some situations.
MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 8.76%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Gitea 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 allows XSS via certain issue data in some situations.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 8.76% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- gitea/gitea
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://blog.gitea.io/2021/03/gitea-1.13.4-is-released/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/PandatiX/CVE-2021-28378Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/14898Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.gitea.io/2021/03/gitea-1.13.4-is-released/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/PandatiX/CVE-2021-28378Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/14898Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.