SNS Vulnerability

eGroupware "menuaction" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in eGroupware, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "menuaction" parameter to etemplate/process_exec.php is not properly sanitised in phpgwapi/inc/common_functions_inc.php 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 version 1.8.002. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
eGroupWare 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.8.004.20120405.

CVE

References

eGroupware:
http://www.egroupware.org/changelog
http://dev.egroupware.org/viewvc/egroupware/branches/1.8/phpgwapi/inc/common_functions.inc.php?r1=38608&
r2=38614
Marcos Garcia:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/111626/egroupware-xss.txt

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

2012-04-06

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote