A vulnerability was found in Chatelao PHP Address Book 8.2.5 (Programming Language Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file edit.php of the component Address Book. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in edit.php in PHP Address Book 8.2.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Address field.

The weakness was published 04/18/2013 (oss-sec). It is possible to read the advisory at openwall.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-1749 since 02/15/2013. 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 of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:edit.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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

Similar entry is available at 63994.

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• Programming Language Software

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• Chatelao

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• PHP Address Book

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• 8.2.5

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• open-source

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