XSS in Etomite

Vulnerability ID: HTB22713
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_etomite.html
Product: Etomite
Vendor: http://www.etomite.org/ ( http://www.etomite.org/ )
Vulnerable Version: 1.1
Vendor Notification: 18 November 2010
Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: Medium
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)

Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.

The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/manager/index.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "location" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.

The following PoC is available:

http://[host]/manager/index.php?location=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C/script%3E