Ipswitch Whatsup Gold Map.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	14797
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 09 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 09 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	Dennis Rand is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 4
Not Vulnerable:

Ipswitch Whatsup Gold Map.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Ipswitch Whatsup Gold is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a lack of proper sanitization of user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

Ipswitch Whatsup Gold Map.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Ipswitch Whatsup Gold Map.ASP 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]>.

Ipswitch Whatsup Gold Map.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Access to view source code of all file, with uppercase extension (Dennis Rand)
  
• Ipswitch Homepage (Ipswitch)