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FOREGROUND SECURITY, SECURITY ADVISORY 2012-001
Lsoft ListServ v16 (WA revision R4241) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (prior versions have not been checked but could be vulnerable too).
LISTSERV launched the email list industry 25 years ago and remains the gold standard. Continuously developed to meet the latest demands, LISTSERV provides the power, reliability and enterprise-level performance you need to manage all of your opt-in email lists, including email newsletters, announcement lists, discussion groups and email communities.
L-Soft is a pioneer in the fields of email list management software, email marketing software and email list hosting services. L-Soft's solutions are used for managing email newsletters, discussion groups, email communities and opt-in email marketing campaigns.
Lsoft ListServ v16 (WA revision R4241) presents a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the parameters 'SHOWTPL' in the web form page, due to an insufficient sanitization on user supplied data and encoding output.
A malicious user could perform session hijacking or phishing attacks.
An attacker could perform session hijacking or phishing attacks.
Lsoft ListServ v16 - WA revision R4241 (prior or later versions have not been checked so could be affected).
Fixed on WA revision r4276.
http://www.foregroundsecurity.com/
http://www.painsec.com
http://www.lsoft.com/
This vulnerability has been discovered by Jose Carlos de Arriba (jcarriba (at) foregroundsecurity (dot) com, dade (at) painsec (dot) com).
August 8, 2012: Vulnerability discovered by Jose Carlos de Arriba.
August 8, 2012: Vendor contacted by email.
August 9, 2012: Response from vendor asking for details and security advisory sent to it.
August 15, 2012: Security advisory sent to vendor.
August 15, 2012: Response from vendor with a new WA revision (r4276) with bug fixed.
August 16, 2012: Security advisory released
The information contained within this advisory is supplied "as-is" with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.
Jose Carlos de Arriba, CISSP
Penetration Testing Team Lead
Foreground Security
www.foregroundsecurity.com
jcarriba (a t) foregroundsecurity (d o t ) com