JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:13796

Info

JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13796
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 28 2005 12:00AM
Updated: May 28 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Nah <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: JAWS JAWS 0.5.1
JAWS JAWS 0.5 beta2
JAWS JAWS 0.5
JAWS JAWS 0.4
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

JAWS is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'Glossary' module.

This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

JAWS versions 0.4 and 0.5 and subsequent are reportedly vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept URI is available:
http://www.example.com/index.php?gadget=Glossary&action=ViewTerm&term=<script
src=some script</script>

Solution / Fix

JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
A fix to address this issue is available in the cvs repository version.

References

JAWS Glossary Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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