5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.0%
Tenable Nessus Web Server is prone to a cross-site scripting
(XSS) vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:tenable:nessus";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100728");
script_version("2023-11-17T16:10:13+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-11-17 16:10:13 +0000 (Fri, 17 Nov 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-08-02 14:28:14 +0200 (Mon, 02 Aug 2010)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2914", "CVE-2010-2989");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Tenable Nessus Web Server < 1.2.4 Plugin Unspecified XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_tenable_nessus_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("tenable/nessus/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tenable Nessus Web Server is prone to a cross-site scripting
(XSS) vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script
code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow
the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other attacks.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Versions prior to Nessus Web Server 1.2.4 are vulnerable.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available. Please see the references for more
information.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41966");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discussions.nessus.org/message/7245");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.nessus.org");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512645");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(!get_app_location(cpe:CPE, port:port, nofork:TRUE))
exit(0);
# nb: Maybe we can also update this in the future to use the relevant CPE instead?
if(!version = get_kb_item("tenable/nessus/http/" + port + "/web_server/version"))
exit(0);
if(version_is_less(version:version, test_version:"1.2.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:"1.2.4");
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);