Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.5 comment_add.asp n cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.5. This impacts an unknown function of the file comment_add.asp. This manipulation of the argument n causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2004-1845. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file comment_add.asp. The manipulation of the argument n with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in News Manager Lite 2.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) email parameter to comment_add.asp, (2) search parameter to search.asp, or (3) n parameter to category_news_headline.asp.

The weakness was presented 03/22/2004 by Manuel Lopez (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1845 since 05/04/2005. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:comment_add.asp it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15548), Exploit-DB (23859), SecurityFocus (BID 9935†), OSVDB (4492†) and Secunia (SA11180†). See VDB-21673, VDB-21674, VDB-81967 and VDB-81968 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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03/20/2004 🔍
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03/22/2004 +2 days 🔍
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12/31/2004 +283 days 🔍
05/04/2005 +124 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3596 days 🔍
07/21/2024 +3422 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Manuel Lopez
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-1845 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1845
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22933
X-Force: 15548 - News Manager Lite cross-site scripting
SecurityFocus: 9935 - Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 11180 - News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 4492 - News Manager Lite comment_add.asp XSS
SecurityTracker: 1009507

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2015 15:52
Updated: 07/21/2024 10:28
Changes: 03/09/2015 15:52 (61), 07/16/2017 13:36 (7), 07/21/2024 10:28 (25)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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