Mambo emailnews.php ID cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Mambo. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file emailnews.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument ID results in cross site scripting. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mambo (Content Management System) (the affected version is unknown). This affects an unknown code of the file emailnews.php. The manipulation of the argument id 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 bug was discovered 01/09/2003. The weakness was disclosed 01/11/2003 by Mindwarper (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at archives.neohapsis.com. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. 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 immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:emailnews.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. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 2074.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (11050), SecurityFocus (BID 6571†) and OSVDB (7505†). The entries VDB-21146, VDB-82098, VDB-82099 and VDB-82100 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

Content Management System

Name

Mambo

License

open-source

CPE 2.3info

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.3

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.3
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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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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 2074

Timelineinfo

01/09/2003 🔍
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01/11/2003 +1 days 🔍
01/11/2003 +0 days 🔍
07/06/2004 +542 days 🔍
04/12/2016 +4297 days 🔍
10/04/2018 +905 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Mindwarper
Status: Not defined

GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-82107
X-Force: 11050
SecurityFocus: 6571 - Mambo Site Server Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 7505 - Mambo emailnews.php id Parameter XSS

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

Created: 04/12/2016 12:36
Updated: 10/04/2018 16:22
Changes: 04/12/2016 12:36 (45), 10/04/2018 16:22 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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