Anghami - Persistent Input Validation Vulnerability

Document Title:
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Anghami - Persistent Input Validation Vulnerability


References:
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https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2144

View Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CnXLxs6CXo



Release Date:
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2018-08-27


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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2144


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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4.5


Vulnerability Class:
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Cross Site Scripting - Persistent


Current Estimated Price:
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1.000€ - 2.000€


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
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2018-08-27: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Medium


Authentication Type:
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Restricted authentication (user/moderator) - User privileges


User Interaction:
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No User Interaction


Disclosure Type:
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Bug Bounty Program


Technical Details & Description:
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The video shows how to exploit a vulnerability in the anghami web service using a mobile device. After the injection procedure 
the attacker is able to influence the user interface of anghami to compromise session credentials or to inject persistent 
malicious script codes. Possible attacks are redirects, cross site requests, cross site request forgery and server-side request forgery.
The issues has been reported to the official bug bounty program of anghami and was finally accepted. The issues are 
already patched in 2017 by the anghami developer team.


Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability-Lab [[email protected]] - https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Vulnerability-Lab


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