BirdBlog multiple scripts cross-site scripting

birdblog-multiple-xss (30428) The risk level is classified as MediumMedium Risk

Description:

BirdBlog is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the admincore.php, comments.php, entries.php, and logs.php scripts. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the msg, month, or page parameter in a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.

Platforms Affected:

  • SourceForge, BirdBlog prior to 1.2.0

Remedy:

No remedy available as of August 16, 2008.

Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

  • BirdBlog Web site, BirdBlog at http://www.birdblog.org/.
  • BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Nov 19 2006 - 06:46:28 CST , BirdBlog => v1.4.0 Cross Site Scripting at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-11/0402.html.
  • BID-21184: BirdBlog Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2006-6211: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in BirdBlog 1.4.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) msg parameter to (a) admin/admincore.php, the (2) month parameter to (b) admin/comments.php or (c) admin/entries.php, or the (3) page parameter to (d) admin/logs.php, different vectors than CVE-2006-5064.

Reported:

Nov 19, 2006

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