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- # This script was written by David Maciejak <david dot maciejak at kyxar dot fr>
- # based on work from
- # (C) Tenable Network Security
- #
- # Ref: Debasis Mohanty
- #
- # This script is released under the GNU GPLv2
-
- if(description)
- {
- script_id(14318);
- script_bugtraq_id(10948);
- if (defined_func("script_xref")) {
- script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"8833");
- }
- script_version ("$Revision: 1.10 $");
-
- name["english"] = "CuteNews XSS";
-
- script_name(english:name["english"]);
-
- desc["english"] = "
- CuteNews is installed on this remote host.
-
- According to it's version number, this host is vulnerable to a
- cross-site-scripting (XSS) attack. An attacker, exploiting this
- flaw, would need to be able to coerce a user to browse to a purposefully
- malicious URI. Upon successful exploitation, the attacker would be able
- to run code within the web-browser in the security context of the
- CuteNews server.
-
- Solution : Upgrade to CuteNews v1.3.2 or newer
-
- Risk factor : Medium";
-
-
-
-
- script_description(english:desc["english"]);
-
- summary["english"] = "Checks for the presence of show_archives.php";
-
- script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
-
- script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
-
- script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak");
-
- family["english"] = "CGI abuses : XSS";
- script_family(english:family["english"]);
- script_dependencie("cutenews_detect.nasl", "http_version.nasl", "cross_site_scripting.nasl");
- script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
- exit(0);
- }
-
- #
- # The script code starts here
- #
-
-
- include("http_func.inc");
- include("http_keepalive.inc");
-
- port = get_http_port(default:80);
- if(!get_port_state(port)) exit(0);
- if ( get_kb_item("www/" + port + "/generic_xss") ) exit(0);
- if(!can_host_php(port:port))
- exit(0);
-
-
- # Test an install.
- install = get_kb_item(string("www/", port, "/cutenews"));
- if (isnull(install)) exit(0);
- matches = eregmatch(string:install, pattern:"^(.+) under (/.*)$");
- if (!isnull(matches)) {
- loc = matches[2];
- req = http_get(item:string(loc, "/show_archives.php?archive=<script>foo</script>&subaction=list-archive&"),
- port:port);
- r = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:1);
- if( r == NULL ) exit(0);
- if(egrep(pattern:"<script>foo</script>", string:r))
- {
- security_warning(port);
- exit(0);
- }
- }
-