Claroline multiple scripts cross-site scripting
| claroline-multiple-xss (27391) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Claroline is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the myagenda.php script, document.php script, userLog.php script and the page.php script. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the 'year', 'cwd', view', or the 'versionId' parameter 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.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
Apply the patch for Claroline version 1.7.7, available from the Claroline Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Jun 26 2006 - 11:03:34 CDT : Claroline Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities.
- Claroline Web site: Claroline Forum::View topic-Security Bugs in Claroline 1.7.7.
- BID-18667: Claroline Multiple Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-3257: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Claroline 1.7.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via unspecified attack vectors, possibly including (1) calendar/myagenda.php, (2) document/document.php, (3) phpbb/newtopic.php, (4) tracking/userLog.php, and (5) wiki/page.php.
- SA20817: Claroline Unspecified Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
- SECTRACK ID: 1016387: Claroline Unspecified Input Validation Bugs Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-2544: Claroline Multiple Parameter Handling Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Claroline Claroline 1.7.7 and prior
Reported:
Jun 27, 2006
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