Helpdesk Pilot Ticket Script Insertion Vulnerability


Description   Ciaran McNally has reported a vulnerability in Helpdesk Pilot, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.
Certain input passed when submitting a ticket is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Helpdesk Pilot 5.x
     
Solution   Reportedly, the issue has been fixed. Please contact the vendor for more information.
     
CVE   CVE-2013-7191
     
References   Ciaran McNally:
http://makthepla.net/blog/=/helpdesk-pilot-add-admin
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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3.2.0
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3.2.0
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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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-12-06 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote