We have identified and fixed a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the action links of Confluence's attachments lists. All versions from 2.7 to 3.4.7 are affected.
XSS vulnerabilities potentially allow an attacker to embed their own JavaScript into a Confluence page. You can read more about XSS attacks at various places on the web, including these:
- cgisecurity.com: http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml
- The Web Application Security Consortium: http://projects.webappsec.org/Cross-Site+Scripting
This issue is reported in our security advisory on this page:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/MgCzDQ
The page also includes detailed patch instructions.