vscripts VNews 1.2 news.php cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in vscripts VNews 1.2. This affects an unknown part of the file news.php. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2006-1544. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in vscripts VNews 1.2. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown processing of the file news.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in news.php in vscripts (aka Kuba Kunkiewicz) VNews 1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) autorkomentarza and (2) tresckomentarza parameters.

The weakness was disclosed 03/29/2006 by Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-1544 since 03/30/2006. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:news.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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25530), SecurityFocus (BID 17317†), OSVDB (24275†) and Secunia (SA19435†). The entries VDB-29428, VDB-29426 and VDB-83677 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

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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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-1544 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1544
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29427
X-Force: 25530
SecurityFocus: 17317 - VNews Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19435 - VNews Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 24275 - VNews news.php Multiple Parameter XSS
Vupen: ADV-2006-1173

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

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 09/01/2017 06:23
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (49), 09/01/2017 06:23 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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