Vulnerability ID: HTB22695 Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_compactcms.html Product: CompactCMS Vendor: compactcms.nl ( http://www.compactcms.nl/ ) Vulnerable Version: 1.4.1 Vendor Notification: 04 November 2010 Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Status: Fixed by Vendor Risk level: Low Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/) Vulnerability Details: User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application. The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "Comments" module to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "website" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data. Attacker can create comment with special crafted website variable. The following PoC is available: http://host/?a=";><script>alert("XSS");</script> Solution: Upgrade to the most recent version
