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Silent-Storm Portal Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. The issues result from insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The following specific issues are reported to affect the application:

Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

This cross-site scripting issue can permit a remote attacker to create a malicious URI link to the vulnerable portal that includes hostile HTML and script code. This attack can allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks.

Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to an input validation vulnerability that results in the corruption of the Silent-Storm Portal database.

It is demonstrated that a remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to gain administrative access by adding a malicious user level database field.