cPanel WHM interface cross-site scripting
| cpanel-whminterface-xss (42305) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
cPanel is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the WHM interface. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the issue, user, search, and possibly other parameters 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:
- cPanel, cPanel 11.18.3
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of cPanel (11.18.4 or later), available from the cPanel Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu May 08 2008 - 19:03:26 CDT, XSS and CSRF vulnerability on Cpanel 11 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-05/0123.html.
- cPanel Web site, cPanel - The Leading Control Panel at http://www.cpanel.net/index.html.
- BID-29125: cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-2070: The WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allows remote attackers to bypass XSS protection and inject arbitrary script or HTML via repeated, improperly-ordered < and > characters in the (1) issue parameter to scripts2/knowlegebase, (2) user parameter to scripts2/changeip, (3) search parameter to scripts2/listaccts, and other unspecified vectors.
- SA30166: cPanel Cross-Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1522: cPanel Cross Site Scripting and Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
Reported:
May 08, 2008
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