singapore user management page cross-site scripting

singapore-user-management-xss (18536) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

singapore is a freely available PHP-based image gallery program for Microsoft Windows and Unix-based platforms. Singapore version 0.9.10 running on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) with PHP version 4.3.4 and 4.3.9 and running on Apache version 1.3.33 with PHP 4.3.9 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by a vulnerability in the user management page. A remote attacker could embed malicious JavaScript in the fullname field, which would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site, once the administrator access the user management page. An attacker could use this vulnerability to obtain a user's cookie-based authentication credentials.

*CVSS:

Base Score: 2.8
  Access Vector: Remote
  Access Complexity: High
  Authentication: Not Required
  Confidentiality Impact: None
  Integrity Impact: Partial
  Availability Impact: None
 
Temporal Score: 2.4
  Exploitability: High
  Remediation Level: Official-Fix
  Report Confidence: Confirmed

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

Upgrade to the latest version of singapore Image Gallery Web Application (0.9.11 or later), available from the SourceForge.net Web site. See References.

References:

Platforms Affected:

  • PHP PHP 4.3.4
  • PHP PHP 4.3.9
  • Tamlyn Rhodes singapore 0.9.10

Reported:

Dec 16, 2004

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