4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.017 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.4%
Invision Power Board is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 David Maciejak
# 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:invision_power_services:invision_power_board";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.15425");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-1578");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11332");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Invision Power Board XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2005 David Maciejak");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("invision_power_board_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_mandatory_keys("invision_power_board/installed");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the latest version of this software");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Invision Power Board is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This version of Invision Power Board is vulnerable to XSS, which
may allow an attacker to steal users cookies.");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if (!dir = get_app_location(cpe:CPE, port:port))
exit(0);
if (dir == "/")
dir = "";
s = string( "GET ", dir, "/index.php?s=5875d919a790a7c429c955e4d65b5d54&act=Login&CODE=00 HTTP/1.1\r\n", "Host: ",
get_host_name(), "\r\n", "Referer: <script>foo</script>", "\r\n\r\n");
soc = http_open_socket(port);
if(!soc) exit(0);
send(socket: soc, data: s);
r = http_recv(socket: soc);
http_close_socket(soc);
if (r =~ "HTTP/1\.. 200" && egrep(pattern:"input type=.*name=.referer.*<script>foo</script>", string:r) )
{
security_message(port);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);