Koha "sort_by" Two Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Koha, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "sort-by" parameter to cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl and /cgi-bin/koha/catalogue/search.pl 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 prior to 3.16.6 and 3.18.2.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Koha 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.16.6 or 3.18.2.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-9446
     
References   http://koha-community.org/koha-3-16-6-release/
http://koha-community.org/koha-3-18-2-release/
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13425
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
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XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
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3.2.0
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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 
2014-12-29 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote