The target is running at least one instance of Horde in which the help subsystem is vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack since information passed to the help window is not properly sanitized
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 6 |
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![]() | FreeBSD Ports: horde, horde-devel | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: horde, horde-devel | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | CVE-2004-2741 | 9 Oct 200710:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | CVE-2004-2741 | 31 Dec 200405:00 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2004-2741 | 9 Oct 200710:00 | – | cve |
![]() | Horde Application Framework Help Window Multiple Parameter XSS | 2 Nov 200400:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/11546 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 George A. Theall
# 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:horde:horde_groupware";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.15605");
script_version("2025-03-27T05:38:50+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-27 05:38:50 +0000 (Thu, 27 Mar 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
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_cve_id("CVE-2004-2741");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Horde < 2.2.7 Help Subsystem XSS Vulnerability - Active Check");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004 George A. Theall");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("horde_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("horde/http/detected");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 443);
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Horde is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Sends a crafted HTTP GET request and checks the response.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The help subsystem is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting
attack since information passed to the help window is not properly sanitized.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.2.7 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11546");
script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"11164");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE, service:"www" ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! dir = get_app_location( cpe:CPE, port:port ) )
exit( 0 );
if( dir == "/" )
dir = "";
# nb: if you change the URL, you probably need to change the pattern in the egrep() below.
url = dir + "/help.php?show=index&module=vttest%22%3E%3Cframe%20src=%22javascript:alert(42)%22%20";
if( http_vuln_check( port:port, url:url, pattern:'frame src="javascript:alert', check_header:TRUE ) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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