Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

BID:51276

Info

Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 51276
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2011-5025
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 05 2012 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 05 2012 12:00AM
Credit: Sitewatch
Vulnerable: Yaws Yaws 1.88
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Yaws is prone to multiple cross-site scripting and HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content.

Successful exploits will allow attacker-supplied HTML and script code to run in the context of the affected browser, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or control how the site is rendered to the user. Other attacks are possible.

Yaws 1.88 is vulnerable; other versions may be affected.

Exploit / POC

Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

An attacker must trick an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI to exploit the cross-site scripting issues. An attacker can exploit the HTML-injection issues through a browser.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/editTag.yaws?node=ALockedPage&tag=%3E%3C/pre%3E%3CScRiPt%3Ealert(1)%3C/ScRiPt%3E
http://www.example.com/showOldPage.yaws?node=home&index=%3E%3C/pre%3E%3CScRiPt%3Ealert(1)%3C/ScRiPt%3E
http://www.example.com/allRefsToMe.yaws?node=%3E%3C/pre%3E%3CScRiPt%3Ealert(1)%3C/ScRiPt%3E
http://www.example.com/editPage.yaws?node=home

Solution / Fix

Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Yaws Multiple Cross Site Scripting and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities

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