LabWiki Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in LabWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed to the "help" parameter in recentchanges.php and the "query" parameter in search.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.
Examples:
[code]" target="_blank"> http://[host]/recentchanges.php?help=">[code]
[code]"> http://[host]/search.php?query=">[code]
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
LabWiki 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.1.
     
CVE   CVE-2006-2968
CVE-2006-2850
     
References   Luny:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-05/0786.html
LabWiki:
http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/labwiki/index.php?page=release_notes
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2006-06-05 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote