Swiki 1.5 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

From: <brad.antoniewicz_at_foundstone.com>
Date: 7 Apr 2008 23:27:55 -0000

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Title: Swiki 1.5 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Vendor URL: http://wiki.squeak.org/swiki Vendor Contacted: Yes

Description:
Multiple stored and reflective cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were identified in Swiki 1.5.

Reflective (example):
http://[host]:8000/<script>alert("XSS");</script>

Stored (example):
On posts to 1.append when adding new entries into the wiki, the application does not properly escape javascript code resulting in a stored cross-site scripting attack.

Credit:
Brad Antoniewicz
brad.antoniewicz_at_foundstone.com
Received on Apr 08 2008