HiveMail index.php cross-site scripting
| hivemail-index-xss (24622) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
HiveMail is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the index.php script. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the $SERVER['PHP_SELF'] variable to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, allowing the attacker to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- HiveMail, HiveMail 1.3 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Feb 10 2006 - 19:41:51 CST, HiveMail <= 1.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-02/0162.html.
- HiveMail Web site, Introducing HiveMail at http://www.hivemail.com/.
- BID-16591: Multiple HiveMail Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-0758: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in HiveMail 1.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL encoded expression in the query string in (1) index.php and (2) possibly certain other scripts, which is not properly cleansed when accessed from the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] variable.
- SA18807: HiveMail Multiple Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0527: HiveMail Multiple Command Execution and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Feb 10, 2006
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