TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:11598

Info

TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11598
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 03 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 03 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to ProCheckUp.
Vulnerable: TIPS MailPost 5.1.1 sv
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

MailPost is reported prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue presents itself due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data and can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser through a malicious error message returned from the application.

This attack would occur in the security context of the affected web site and may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials or other attacks.

MailPost 5.1.1sv is reported prone to this issue. It is possible that other versions are affected as well.

Exploit / POC

TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

An exploit is not required to leverage this issue.

The following proof of concept is available:
http://www.example.com/scripts/mailpost.exe/<script>alert('hi')</script>/mail.txt

Solution / Fix

TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

TIPS MailPost Error Message Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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