IBM WebSphere Portal XSS Vulnerability
🗓️ 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the application interface of IBM WebSphere Portal servers allows a hacker to inject any Web or HTML code. | 17 Mar 201600:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| IBM WebSphere Portal Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-01420) | 2 Mar 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2015-7491 | 29 Feb 201611:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2015-7491 | 29 Feb 201611:00 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2015-7415 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2015-7491 | 29 Feb 201611:59 | – | nvd | |
| Cross site scripting | 29 Feb 201611:59 | – | prion | |
| IBM WebSphere Portal Multiple Vulnerabilities (swg21976358) | 4 Mar 201600:00 | – | nessus |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| www-01 | www.www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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:ibm:websphere_portal";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106205");
script_version("2025-09-05T15:40:40+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-05 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 05 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-08-25 14:33:21 +0700 (Thu, 25 Aug 2016)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"3.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2016-03-02 14:30:00 +0000 (Wed, 02 Mar 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-7491");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("IBM WebSphere Portal XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_ibm_websphere_portal_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ibm_websphere_portal/installed");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"IBM WebSphere Portal is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"IBM WebSphere Portal is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by
improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using 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.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's
cookie-based authentication credentials.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WebSphere Portal 8.5 and 8.0");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Check the vendor's advisory for sulutions.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21976358");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if (version =~ "^8\.5\.0") {
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "8.5.0.0.9")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.5.0.0 CF09");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
}
if (version =~ "^8\.0\.0") {
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "8.0.0.1.20")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.0.0.1 CF20");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(0);
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