TWiki Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Mavituna Security has reported multiple vulnerability in TWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Certain input related to QUERYSTRING and QUERYPARAMSTRING is not properly sanitised within lib/TWiki.pm and lib/TWiki/UI/View.pm 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.
This vulnerability is reported in version 6.0.1.
2) Input passed to the "scope" parameter in do/view/TWiki/WebSearch (when "search" is set to "Search") is not properly sanitised within lib/TWiki.pm 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.
This vulnerability is reported in versions 6.0.x.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
TWikiTWiki 6.0.x
     
Solution   Apply patches (please see vendor's advisories for details).
     
CVE   CVE-2014-9367
CVE-2014-9325
     
References   TWiki:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2014-9325
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2014-9367
Mavituna Security:
https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2014-9325-xss-vulnerability-in-twiki/
https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2014-9367-xss-vulnerability-in-twiki/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2014-12-22 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote