PerlDiver Perldiver.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	14894
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Sep 21 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 21 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	Donnie Werner is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	ScriptSolutions PerlDiver 2.31
Not Vulnerable:	ScriptSolutions PerlDiver 2.32

PerlDiver Perldiver.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

PerlDiver is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize 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.

PerlDiver Perldiver.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Proof of concept URI have been provided:

Version 1.x
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http://www.example.com/[path]/perldiver.pl?testhere<SCRIPT>alert(document.domain);</SCRIPT>


version 2.x
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http://www.example.com/[path]/perldiver.cgi?action=2020&module=<script>document.write(document.domain)</script>

PerlDiver Perldiver.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 2.32 to address this issue.


ScriptSolutions PerlDiver 2.31

• ScriptSolutions PerlDiver
  http://www.scriptsolutions.com/support/

PerlDiver Perldiver.CGI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• EXPL-A-2005-014 exploitlabs.com Advisory 043 (Donnie Werner)
  
• PerlDiver Web Page (ScriptSolutions)
  
• XSS Vulnerability (Donnie Werner )