AWStats awstats.pl XSS Vulnerability (Dec 2008)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:awstats:awstats";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800151");
  script_version("2025-09-09T14:09:45+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-09 14:09:45 +0000 (Tue, 09 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-12-09 13:27:23 +0100 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008)");
  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-2008-5080");

  script_name("AWStats awstats.pl XSS Vulnerability (Dec 2008)");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474396");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495432#21");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_awstats_http_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("awstats/detected");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"AWStats 6.8 and earlier.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to query_string parameter in awstats.pl which is not
  properly sanitized before being returned to the user.");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"AWStats is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to the latest version.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful attack could lead to execution of arbitrary HTML and script code
  in the context of an affected site.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_app");

  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_is_less_equal(version: version, test_version: "6.8")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);