Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:3714

Info

Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3714
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2001-1212
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Dec 18 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:06AM
Credit: This vulnerability was submitted to BugTraq on December 18th, 2001 by "Tamer Sahin" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Aktivate Aktivate 1.0 3
- Apache Apache 1.3.22
- Apache Apache 1.3.20
- Apache Apache 1.3.19
- Apache Apache 1.3.18
- Apache Apache 1.3.17
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Aktivate is a shopping cart system which is geared towards Unix and Linux users, uses MySQL as a backend, and is written in Perl.

Aktivate is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. It is possible to construct a link containing arbitrary script code to a website running Aktivate. When a user browses the link, the script code will be executed on the user in the context of the site hosting the affected software.

The impact of this issue is that the attacker is able to hijack a legitimate web user's session, by stealing cookie-based authentication credentials. Other cross-site scripting attacks are also possible.

Aktivate 1.03 is known to be vulnerable, other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

"Tamer Sahin" &lt;[email protected]&gt; provided the following example:

https://host/aktivate/cgi-bin/catgy.cgi?key=0&amp;cartname=axa200135022551
089&amp;desc=&lt;script&gt;alert(document.domain)&lt;/script&gt;

Solution / Fix

Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff 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

Aktivate Shopping Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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