Snitz Forums Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:7922

Info

Snitz Forums Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7922
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2003-0492
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 16 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 10:06PM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to JeiAr <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Snitz Forums 2000 Snitz Forums 2000 3.4 .03
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Snitz Forums Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Snitz Forums is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. This is due to insufficient sanitization of data passed to the search facility via URI parameters.

Exploitation may allow theft of cookie-based authentication credentials or other attacks.

This issue was reported in Snitz Forums 3.4.0.3, other versions might also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Snitz Forums Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The following proof of concept has been provided:

http://www.example.com/search.asp?Search="&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;alert()&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;

Solution / Fix

Snitz Forums Search.ASP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has supplied the following patch which addresses this issue:

Replace the first line, located approximately on line #640, with the second line.

First:
" <td bgColor=""" & strPopUpTableColor & """ align=""left"" valign=""middle""><input type=""text"" name=""Search"" size=""40"" value=""" & Request.QueryString("Search") & """><br />" & vbNewLine & _

Second:
" <td bgColor=""" & strPopUpTableColor & """ align=""left"" valign=""middle""><input type=""text"" name=""Search"" size=""40"" value=""" & ChkString(Request.QueryString("Search"),"display") & """><br />" & vbNewLine & _

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