SNS Vulnerability

FuseTalk Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FuseTalk, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the URL to forum/reg.cfm (when "keyword" is set), forum/index.cfm, blog/index.cfm, and the "letter" parameter in forum/whoson.cfm 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.
This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA40850
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in FuseTalk Standard Edition Evaluation version 4.0 (ColdFusion). Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
FuseTalk 4.x

Solution

Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.

CVE

References

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

2012-01-03

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote