The War Forge warforge.NEWS 1.0 newsadd.php cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in The War Forge warforge.NEWS 1.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the file newsadd.php. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-6996. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in The War Forge warforge.NEWS 1.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file newsadd.php. The manipulation 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. CVE summarizes:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in warforge.NEWS 1.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the (1) title and (2) newspost parameters to (a) newsadd.php, and the (3) name, title, and (4) comment parameters to (b) news.php, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-1818. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

The weakness was disclosed 02/12/2007 by Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu (Website). The advisory is shared for download at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-6996 since 02/12/2007. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

It is declared as highly functional. By approaching the search of inurl:newsadd.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 (25901), SecurityFocus (BID 17520†) and Secunia (SA19697†). The entries VDB-29695 and VDB-29694 are pretty similar. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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

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Status: Highly functional
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04/14/2006 🔍
04/19/2006 +5 days 🔍
02/12/2007 +299 days 🔍
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03/13/2015 +2951 days 🔍
08/19/2018 +1255 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2006-6996 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-6996
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-34952
X-Force: 25901 - warforge.NEWS multiple scripts cross-site scripting
SecurityFocus: 17520 - Warforge.NEWS Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19697 - warforge.NEWS Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 08/19/2018 07:58
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (49), 08/19/2018 07:58 (10)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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