Description
The WYSIWYG editor applet in activeWeb contentserver CMS before 5.6.2964 only filters malicious tags from articles sent to admin/applets/wysiwyg/rendereditor.asp, which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary JavaScript via a request to admin/worklist/worklist_edit.asp.
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
- ActiveWeb Contentserver CMS 5.6.2929 - Client-Side Filtering Bypass EDB-30299 · webapps · Jul 13, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- activeweb-worklistedit-xss(35399) vdb-entry
- 20070713 ActiveWeb Contentserver CMS Clientside Filtering of Page Editor Content mailing-list
- 2900 third-party-advisory
- http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2007-006.php
- 26063 third-party-advisory
- 24898 vdb-entry
- 39745 vdb-entry