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STG Security Advisory: [SSA-20041122-12] Zwiki XSS vulnerability Nov 24 2004 03:00AM
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STG Security Advisory: [SSA-20041122-12] Zwiki XSS vulnerability

Revision 1.1

Date Published: 2004-11-22 (KST)

Last Update: 2004-11-22

Disclosed by SSR Team (advisory (at) stgsecurity (dot) com [email concealed])

Summary

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Zwiki is a wiki clone in zope. It has a cross site scripting vulnerability.

Vulnerability Class

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Implementation Error: Input validation flaw

Details

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Due to an input validation flaw, the Zwiki is vulnerable to cross site

scripting attacks.

cf. http://zwiki.org/925ZwikiXSSVulnerability

proof of concept

http://[victim]/<img src=javascript:alert('hi')>

Impact

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Medium: Malicious attackers can inject and execute arbitrary script code in

a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

Affected Products

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Zwiki 0.36.2 and prior

Vendor Status: NOT FIXED

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2004-10-01 Vulnerability found.

2004-10-01 Zwiki developer notified.

2004-11-22 Official release.

Credits

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Jeremy Bae at STG Security

[ reply ]

Re: STG Security Advisory: [SSA-20041122-12] Zwiki XSS vulnerability Nov 26 2004 09:25AM
Chris Withers (chris simplistix co uk)