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XSS Vulnerabilities in LabWiki

2012-09-0300:00:00
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Information

Name : XSS Vulnerabilities in LabWiki
Software : LabWiki 1.5 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage : http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/labwiki/index.php
Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting
Severity : Critical
Researcher : Canberk Bolat
Advisory Reference : NS-12-008

Description

This wiki is powered by Qwiki Wiki, a minimalist PHP wiki engine
originally developed by David Barrett, that uses plain text files to
store data. The 'engine' is used to edit the data as well as to format
it and present it as a web page. Significant modifications were done
to the codes of this wiki for bugs and enhancements (XHTML compliance,
UTF-8 encoding, backup maintainance, page deletion, etc.) by Santosh
Patnaik (SP) who also largely seeded the wiki with new and old
(non-wiki) documents.

Details

LabWiki is affected by XSS vulnerabilities in version 1.5. Example PoC
urls are as follows :

http://example.com/recentchanges.php?page_no='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x00039E)</script>&nothing=nothing
http://example.com/index.php?page=What_is_wiki&from='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x0001C7)</script>

You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
from here :

Cross-site Scripting: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/

Solution

No patch released.

Advisory Timeline

15/11/2011 - First contact: No response
01/01/2012 - Second contact: No response
22/08/2012 - Advisory Released

Credits

It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/.

References

MSL Advisory Link :
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerabilities-in-labwiki/
Netsparker Advisories : http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/

About Netsparker

Netsparkerยฎ can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection
and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of
the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique
detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in
reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web
application security scanner.

โ€“ Netsparker Advisories, <[email protected]> Homepage, http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/