SmartJobBoard Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and Script Insertion Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in SmartJobBoard, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "keywords[exact_phrase]" parameter to search-results-resumes/ 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.
2) Input passed via the "Title", "Education[InstitutionName]", "Education[Major]" parameters to add-listing/, the "form" parameter to private-messages/send/, the "caption" to screening-questionnaires/add-questions/, the "Title", "JobDescription", and "JobRequirements" parameters to add-listing/Job/Postjob/ 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.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.4. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
SmartJobBoard 3.x
     
Solution   Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.
     
CVE  
     
References   Mr.PaPaRoSSe:
http://paparosse.blogspot.com/2011/11/smartjobboard-cross-site-scripting.html
Vulnerability Lab:
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=490
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-11-07 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote