Xoops 0.94/1.0 search.php/letter.php terme/letter cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Xoops 0.94/1.0 (Content Management System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file search.php/letter.php. The manipulation of the argument terme/letter with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in XOOPS 0.94 and 1.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script and HTML via the (1) terme parameter to search.php or (2) letter parameter to letter.php.

The weakness was disclosed 08/28/2004 with CyruxNET (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1640 since 02/21/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:search.php/letter.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14614 (XOOPS <= 1.0 Dictionary Module Multiple Scripts XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses : XSS and running in the context r.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17154) and Tenable (14614). The entry 82157 is pretty similar.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 14614
Nessus Name: XOOPS <= 1.0 Dictionary Module Multiple Scripts XSS
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Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Organization: CyruxNET
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1640 (🔍)
X-Force: 17154
Vulnerability Center: 5330 - XSS in Xoops Dictionary 1, 0.94 Allows Stealing Others Cookie-Based Authentication Credentials, Medium
SecurityFocus: 11064 - Nagl XOOPS Dictionary Module Multiple Cross-Site Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 12424
OSVDB: 9393 - XOOPS Dictionary Module search.php terme Parameter XSS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 12/19/2014 09:35
Updated: 05/24/2019 16:51
Changes: 12/19/2014 09:35 (72), 05/24/2019 16:51 (1)
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