GForge Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

2007.01.11

Credit: Jos Ramn Palanco

Risk: Low

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2007-0176

CWE: CWE-79

CVSS Base Score: 6.8/10

Impact Subscore: 6.4/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: Partial

GForge Cross Site Scripting vulnerability
Version: Tested on GForge 4.5.11
Discovered by: Jos Ramn Palanco: jose.palanco(at)eazel(dot)es
http://www.eazel.es
Description:
GForge is vulnerable to a security vulnerability that allow Cross-Site Scripting attacks. Due to improper filtering, a remote attacker can cause a cross site scripting.
To exploit any attacker may send via GET method the "words" variable to:
>"<script>alert('www.eazel.es')</script>
to http://site/search/advanced_search.php?group_id=X&search=1
where X is any active project in the gforge installation.
Timeline:
discovered: 26/10/2006
published: 8/01/2007
Original advisory:
http://www.eazel.es/advisory006-gforge-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilit
y.html

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