Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

BID:3978

Info

Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 3978
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2002-0217
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 29 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 09:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was submitted to BugTraq on January 29th, 2002 by Cabezon Aurelien <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Xoops Xoops 1.0 RC1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

Xoops is open-source, freely available web portal software written in object-oriented PHP. It is back-ended by a MySQL database and will run on most Unix and Linux distributions.

Xoops includes a Private Message System for users. The Title: field of the Private Message System does not sufficiently filter script code. When another user receives the attacker's private message, the malicious script code will be executed on that user in the context of the site running Xoops.

This issue may be exploited by an attacker to steal a legitimate user's cookie-based authentication credentials, among other things.

Exploit / POC

Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

This issue can be exploited with a web browser.

Solution / Fix

Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent 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]>.

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Xoops Private Message System Cross-Agent Scripting Vulnerability

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