# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-38893"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-12-21T19:10:14.320Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-17T00:26:52.814Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:32.228Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-38893"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-38893.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38893"
title: null
summary: "IBM Business Process Manager 8.5 and 8.6 and IBM Business Automation Workflow 18.0, 19.0, 20.0 and 21.0 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 209512."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"21.0.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"IBM","product":"Cloud Pak for Automation"},{"versions":[{"version":"8.5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7.CF201706","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7.CF201703","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7.CF201612","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7.CF201609","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7.CF201606","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.0.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5.0.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"8.5","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"IBM","product":"Business Process Manager Standard"}]

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