SNS Vulnerability

Claroline Multiple Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Claroline, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "announcements/messages.php", "auth/lostPassword.php", "auth/profile.php", "calendar/myagenda.php", "group/group.php", "learnPath/learningPath.php", "learnPath/learningPathList.php", "learnPath/module.php", "phpbb/index.php", "tracking/courseLog.php", "tracking/course_access_details.php", "tracking/delete_course_stats.php", "tracking/userLog.php", "tracking/user_access_details.php", "user/user.php", "user/userInfo.php" and "toolaccess_details.php" script when processing user-supplied URLs and parameters, which could be exploited by attackers to cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by the user's browser in the security context of an affected Web site.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Claroline versions prior to 1.8.11

Solution

Upgrade to Claroline version 1.8.11 : http://sourceforge.net/projects/claroline/

CVE

CVE-2008-3315

References

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=615030

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	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 - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	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 - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	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 - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	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

2008-07-23

Target Type

Client

Possible exploit

Local & Remote