Vulnerability ID: HTB22735 Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_html_edit_cms.html Product: HTML-EDIT CMS Vendor: html-edit web services ( http://www.html-edit.org/ ) Vulnerable Version: 3.1.8 Vendor Notification: 02 December 2010 Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Status: Fixed by Vendor Risk level: Medium 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 "/index.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "error" 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 use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available: http://[host]/index.php?error=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script> Solution: Upgrade to the most recent version
