SNS Vulnerability

Dotclear "order" and "sortby" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

(:A cross-site scripting vulnerability was reported in Dotclear.:A remote attacker could exploit it by enticing their victim into following a specially crafted link in order to execute arbitrary JavaScript or HTML code.::This vulnerability stems from improper user-input sanitization in the "order" and "sortby" parameters located in the "admin/blogs.php" and "admin/users.php" pages.)

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Dotclear (Dotclear) - 2.11, 2.11.1, 2.11.2

Solution

A patch is available on the repository of Dotclear.

CVE

CVE-2017-6446

References

- Dotclear : Sanitize filters params
https://dev.dotclear.org/2.0/changeset/1e44804e7c85b45f42245111c8c0de100a2ff6e3

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

2017-03-01

Target Type

Client

Possible exploit

Remote