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icon5.gif  Cross site scripting problem in admin login page [message #7492] Tue, 26 November 2002 12:05 Go to next message
Jimvin is currently offline  Jimvin   United States
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Hi,
I was checking out FUDForum for a friend who has recently installed it on his home PC and I have found a XSS problem in one of the pages. I went to the URL http://www.friendsserver.com/adm/index.php which take you to an login page.

If a login fails, the username tried is displayed in the textbox of the resulting page. Adding some special chars means that HTML, javascript etc. can be added to the page.

Example: The following string will display a javascript popup containing the user's cookie.

user" size=25> <script>alert(document.cookie)</script> <


The risk is mitigated to some degree in that certain special characters such as ' and " are escaped.Appologies if this has already been identified.

Cheers,
Jimvin

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Re: Cross site scripting problem in admin login page [message #7517 is a reply to message #7492] Fri, 29 November 2002 14:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Not true, before the login is displayed it is passed via
htmlspecialchars(stripslashes()), meaning that any tricks like JavaScript or HTML will be ignored.

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icon5.gif  Re: Cross site scripting problem in admin login page [message #7524 is a reply to message #7517] Fri, 29 November 2002 19:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jimvin is currently offline  Jimvin   United Kingdom
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I beg to differ...

Try visiting the URL on this site:

http://fud.prohost.org/forum/adm

Enter the following code into the Login box:

user" size=25> <script>alert(document.cookie)</script> <

You should see a popup containing your cookie.

Regards,
Jimvin

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Re: Cross site scripting problem in admin login page [message #7528 is a reply to message #7524] Sat, 30 November 2002 17:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
zapal   Poland
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Hi

Did what Jimvin said and here's what happened:
I got an alert box containg values of frm_referer_id and ud_session_1010519835. When I closed this box, the page reloaded and told me sth like this:
Login Into the Forum
No such user
Login: [] <" size=25>
Password: []

Where "[]" is the inputbox.

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Re: Cross site scripting problem in admin login page [message #7531 is a reply to message #7528] Sat, 30 November 2002 18:01 Go to previous message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Fixed in CVS.

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