21st June 2018
Risk level: Low
CVSS v3 Base Score: 3.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CWE: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
A missing sanitization of search results for an autocomplete field could lead to a stored XSS requiring user-interaction. The missing sanitization only affected group names, hence malicious search results could only be crafted by privileged users like admins or group admins.
The error has been fixed.
It is recommended that the contacts app is upgraded to 2.1.2.
The Nextcloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory: