Advisory XSS-ASPMyAdmin 10102012

Advisory ID: OS001

Product: ASPmyAdmin

Created by: Sukalyan Chakraborty
Vulnerable Version(s): NA
Tested Version: NA

Vulnerability Type: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-712]

Public Disclosure: October 10, 2012

Vendor status : Notified
CVSS Base Score :5.8

CVSS Temporal Score 5.8

CVSS Environmental Score 7.5

Researcher: Alfredo García, Senior Security Consultant @ Open-sec ( http://www.open-sec.com/ )

Advisory Details :

Alfredo García, Senior Security Consultant at Open-Sec discovered a vulnerability in ASPmyAdmin, which can be exploited to perform Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and arbitrary HTML injection attacks.

Vulnerability Description : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in ASPmyAdmin:

ASPMyAdmin includes ASP scripts that fail to adequately sanitize output strings coming from user-supplied input . By leveraging this issue, an attacker may be able inject arbitrary HTML and Javascript code to be executed in a user's browser within the security context of the affected victim.

At least, the following scripts are vulnerable using the dbName parameter through GET :

db_info.asp

db_table.asp

db_view.asp

db_procedure.asp

db_sql.asp

db_drop.asp

Examples of URLs that lead to exploit this vulnerability are :

http://www.host.com/db_table.asp?dbName=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

http://www.host.com/db_procedure.asp?dbName=<script>window.alert('Open-Sec')</script>

Impact : Victims are exposed to unwanted content, modified content, redirection to other site and/or content, user's session cookies stealing, browser-based attacks, etc.

Solution:

To fix this kind of vulnerability (XSS), you colud establish a web application firewall, but, actually, you must validate all output strings. You must validate that the output is the type, length and format are the expected ones. For more information on prevention, visit :https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_%28Cross_Site_Scripting%29_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

Also, check out the following link to implement web application security based on ESAPI
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Enterprise_Security_API

Contact Information : For additional details, feel free to contact Alfredo Garcia at agarcia@open-sec.com

About Open-Sec : 

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