SNS Vulnerability

Newscoop URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Pawel Haldrzynski has discovered a vulnerability in Newscoop, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input appended to the URL after /admin/user/edit/user/ 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 confirmed in version 4.1.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Newscoop 4.x

Solution

Apply patch. http://sourceforge.net/projects/newscoop/files/Security%20Patches/0002-CS-4563-User-editing-in-back-end-allows-for-cross-site.patch/download

CVE

CVE-2013-0730

References

Newscoop:
http://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/15052/security-patch-released-for-newscoop-4-1

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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2013-02-12

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote