PostNuke 0.750/0.760 Rc3 demo.php serverName cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PostNuke 0.750/0.760 Rc3 (Content Management System). This issue affects an unknown part of the file demo.php. The manipulation of the argument serverName 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in PostNuke 0.750 and 0.760RC3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) skin or (2) paletteid parameter to demo.php in the Xanthia module, or (3) the serverName parameter to config.php in the Multisites (aka NS-Multisites) module.

The bug was discovered 05/21/2005. The weakness was released 05/24/2005 by sp3x with SecurityReason (Website). The advisory is shared at news.postnuke.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2005-1696 since 05/24/2005. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:demo.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 21379 (FreeBSD : postnuke -- multiple vulnerabilities (0274a9f1-0759-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20695) and Tenable (21379). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 25385, 25384, 25303 and 25300.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 21379
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : postnuke -- multiple vulnerabilities (0274a9f1-0759-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)
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OpenVAS ID: 54492
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: postnuke
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Advisory: news.postnuke.com
Researcher: sp3x
Organization: SecurityReason
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-1696 (🔍)
X-Force: 20695
Vulnerability Center: 18024 - PostNuke Multiple Modules Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Attacker to Conduct XSS Attacks, Medium
SecurityFocus: 13789 - PostNuke SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 16790 - PostNuke demo.php and config.php cross-site scripting

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Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 08/07/2019 18:33
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (72), 08/07/2019 18:33 (9)
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