Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cherokee before 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL, which is not properly quoted in the resulting error page.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Cherokee 0.1.x/0.2.x/0.4.x - Error Page Cross-Site Scripting EDB-23605 · remote · Jan 26, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- cherokee-error-xss(14936) vdb-entry
- 9496 vdb-entry
- 10701 third-party-advisory
- 3707 vdb-entry