S9Y Serendipity Multiple Vulnerabilities

vendor:

Serendipity

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

HTML-injection and multiple cross-site scripting

79, 80

CWE

Product Name: Serendipity

Affected Version From: 1.3

Affected Version To: 1.3

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:s9y:serendipity

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2008

S9Y Serendipity Multiple Vulnerabilities

S9Y Serendipity is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability and multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is rendered to the user, or launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied input is properly sanitized.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28885/info

S9Y Serendipity is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability and multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is rendered to the user, or launch other attacks.

S9Y Serendipity 1.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

The following proof of concept is available for the referrer issue:

wget --referer='http://<hr onMouseOver="alert(7)">' http://someblog.com/