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XSS vulnerability in Dada Mail

🗓️ 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2005 Josh Zlatin-AmishavType 
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The remote host is running Dada Mail, a free, e-mail list management system written in Perl. It does not properly validate user-written content before submitting it to the archiving system, allowing a malicious user to embed arbitrary JavaScript in archived messages for execution in a user's browser

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Tenable Nessus
Dada Mail Archived Message XSS
12 Sep 200500:00
nessus
OpenVAS
XSS vulnerability in Dada Mail
26 Mar 200600:00
openvas
Cvelist
CVE-2005-2595
17 Aug 200504:00
cvelist
CVE
CVE-2005-2595
17 Aug 200504:00
cve
NVD
CVE-2005-2595
17 Aug 200504:00
nvd
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: dada_mail_xss.nasl 5783 2017-03-30 09:03:43Z cfi $
# Description: XSS vulnerability in Dada Mail
#
# Authors:
# Josh Zlatin-Amishav <josh at ramat dot cc>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (C) 2005 Josh Zlatin-Amishav
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

tag_summary = "The remote host is running Dada Mail, a free, e-mail list management
system written in Perl. 

According to its banner, the remote version of this software does not
properly validate user written content before submitting that data to
the archiving system.  A malicious user could embed arbitrary
javascript in archived messages to later be executed in a user's
browser within the context of the affected web site.";

tag_solution = "Upgrade to version 2.10 alpha 1 or higher.";

if(description)
{
 script_id(19679);
 script_version("$Revision: 5783 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-03-30 11:03:43 +0200 (Thu, 30 Mar 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2006-03-26 17:55:15 +0200 (Sun, 26 Mar 2006)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2595");
 script_bugtraq_id(14573);
 script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"18772");
 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_name("XSS vulnerability in Dada Mail");
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
 script_family("Web application abuses");
 script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2005 Josh Zlatin-Amishav");
 script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "http_version.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=349531");
 exit(0);
}

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

port = get_http_port(default:80);

foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/cgi-bin/dada", cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {

  if( dir == "/" ) dir = "";
  url = string(dir, "/mail.cgi");
  req = http_get( item:url, port:port );
  res = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE);

  # versions 2.9.x are vulnerable
  if(egrep(pattern:"Powered by.*Dada Mail 2\.9", string:res)) {
    report = report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
    security_message( port:port, data:report );
    exit( 0 );
  }
}

exit( 99 );

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26 Mar 2006 00:00Current
6.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.6
EPSS0.00173
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