Advanced Guestbook version 2.4.2 XSS Attack Vulnerability
Current status
This advisory describes a vulnerability from 2007. It is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and there is no active remediation deadline. The page is kept online because other security databases link to it.
CVE reference CVE-2007-0605
In KEV catalog no
Affected software Advanced Guestbook version 2.4.2
Captured from netvigilance.com
Original document
Reproduced as it was published, including the advisory numbering, scoring and the disclosure timeline used at the time.
Description: Advanced Guestbook is a PHP-based guestbook script. It includes many useful features such as preview, templates, e-mail notification, picture upload, page spanning , html tags handling, smiles, advanced guestbook codes and language support. The admin script lets you modify, view, and delete messages. Requires PHP4 and MySQL. This vulnerabilities can be exploited only when PHP register_globals is On. External References: Mitre CVE: CVE-2007-0605 NVD NIST: CVE-2007-0605 OSVDB: 33877 BUGTRAQ/BID: 23873 Summary: Advanced Guestbook is a PHP-based guestbook with admin interface. Security problems in the product allows attackers to conduct XSS attacks Security problem in the product allows attackers to conduct XSS attacks. Release Date: May 07 2007 Severity: Risk: Medium CVSS Metrics: Access Vector: Remote Access Complexity: High Authentication: not-required Confidentiality Impact: Partial Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: Partial Impact Bias: Normal CVSS Base Score: 5.6 Target Distribution on Internet: Low Exploitability: Functional Exploit Remediation Level: Workaround Report Confidence: Uncorroborated Vulnerability Impact: Attack Host Impact: XSS Attack SecureScout Testcase ID: TC 17948 Vulnerable Systems: Advanced Guestbook version 2.4.2 Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) to force a web-site to display malicious contents to the target, by sending a specially crafted request to the web-site. The vulnerable web-site is not the target of attack but is used as a tool for the hacker in the attack of the victim. Vendor: Chi Kien Uong Vendor Status: Contact with the Vendor was established but draft of the security advisory wasn't provided because the Vendor stopped responding to our emails on 9 March 2007. There is no official fix at the release of this Security Advisory Workaround: Set PHP register_globals to Off. Example: REQUEST: http://[TARGET]/[guestbook-directory]/picture.php?size[0]=1&size[1]=1&img=1&picture=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22ok%22)%3C/script%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22 REPLY: Will execute <script>alert(document.cookie)</script> Credits: Jesper Jurcenoks Co-founder netVigilance, Inc www.netvigilance.com
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