SNS Vulnerability

Telligent Evolution "msg" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Portcullis has reported a vulnerability in Telligent Evolution, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "msg" parameter to controlpanel/loading.aspx is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 6.1.19.36103 and prior, 7.1.12.36162 and prior, 7.5.x, and 7.6.636157 and prior.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Telligent Evolution 6.xTelligent Evolution 7.x

Solution

Update to version 6.1.20.36651, 7.1.13.36651, or 7.6.7.36651.

CVE

CVE-2014-1223

References

Portcullis:
https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-1223/

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	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

2014-02-25

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote