Online News Portal System 1.0 - 'Title' Stored Cross Site Scripting

vendor:

Online News Portal System

by:

Parshwa Bhavsar

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Stored Cross-site scripting(XSS)

CWE

Product Name: Online News Portal System

Affected Version From: 1.0

Affected Version To: 1.0

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:sourcecodester:online_news_portal_system:1.0

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10/XAMPP

2020

Online News Portal System 1.0 – ‘Title’ Stored Cross Site Scripting

This vulnerability can result in the attacker to inject the XSS payload in the Title field of the page and each time any user will open the website, the XSS triggers and attacker can able to steal the cookie according to the crafted payload.

Mitigation:

Input validation and output encoding should be used to prevent XSS attacks.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Online News Portal System 1.0 - 'Title' Stored Cross Site Scripting
# Date: 24-11-2020
# Exploit Author: Parshwa Bhavsar
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14600/online-news-portal-using-phpmysqli-source-code.html
# Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/online-news-portal.zip
# Version: 1.0
# Tested on: Windows 10/XAMPP

Stored Cross-site scripting(XSS):
Stored XSS, also known as persistent XSS, is the more damaging of the
two. It occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a
vulnerable web application.

Attack Vector :

This vulnerability can result in the attacker to inject the XSS
payload in the Title field of the page and each time any user will
open the website, the XSS triggers and attacker can able to steal the
cookie according to the crafted payload.

Vulnerable Parameters: Title Parameter in Edit Post Page.

Payload : "><img src=x Onmouseover=alert(document.domain)>

Vulnerable URL :
http://localhost/online-news-portal/news_portal/admin/index.php?page=new_post

Steps To Reproduce :
1) Go to the admin Dashboard
2) Click on Posts and click Add New button.
3) Put Payload into the Title parameter.
4) Click on Save.
5) XSS payload will be triggered.