Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine up to 2.12 User Interface archiveapplydisplay.jsp displayMsg cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine up to 2.12. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the file archiveapplydisplay.jsp of the component User Interface. Executing a manipulation of the argument displayMsg can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2006-1960. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine up to 2.12 (Wireless LAN Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the file archiveapplydisplay.jsp of the component User Interface. The manipulation of the argument displayMsg 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 confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the appliance web user interface in Cisco CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and WLSE Express before 2.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, possibly via the displayMsg parameter to archiveApplyDisplay.jsp, aka bug ID CSCsc01095.

The bug was discovered 12/30/2005. The weakness was disclosed 04/19/2006 by Adam Pointon (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-1960 since 04/21/2006. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 110 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. By approaching the search of inurl:archiveapplydisplay.jsp it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 2.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (25883), Exploit-DB (27684), SecurityFocus (BID 17604†), OSVDB (24812†) and Secunia (SA19736†). The entry VDB-29813 is pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Wireless LAN Solution Engine 2.13

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Adam Pointon
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1960 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1960
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29812
X-Force: 25883
SecurityFocus: 17604 - Cisco Wireless Lan Solution Engine ArchiveApplyDisplay.JSP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia: 19736 - Cisco WLSE Privilege Escalation and Cross-Site Scripting, Less Critical
OSVDB: 24812 - CiscoWorks WLSE archiveApplyDisplay.jsp displayMsg Parameter XSS
SecurityTracker: 1015965
Vulnerability Center: 11334 - [cisco-sr-20060419-priv] Cisco WLSE XSS via ArchiveApplyDisplay.jsp, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-1434

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

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 01/12/2025 12:15
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (63), 06/17/2019 14:20 (17), 01/12/2025 12:15 (19)
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