Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Koha 3.14.x before 3.14.16, 3.16.x before 3.16.12, 3.18.x before 3.18.08, and 3.20.x before 3.20.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) tag parameter to opac-search.pl; the (2) value parameter to authorities/authorities-home.pl; the (3) delay parameter to acqui/lateorders.pl; the (4) authtypecode or (5) tagfield to admin/auth_subfields_structure.pl; the (6) tagfield parameter to admin/marc_subfields_structure.pl; the (7) limit parameter to catalogue/search.pl; the (8) bookseller_filter, (9) callnumber_filter, (10) EAN_filter, (11) ISSN_filter, (12) publisher_filter, or (13) title_filter parameter to serials/serials-search.pl; or the (14) author, (15) collectiontitle, (16) copyrightdate, (17) isbn, (18) manageddate_from, (19) manageddate_to, (20) publishercode, (21) suggesteddate_from, or (22) suggesteddate_to parameter to suggestion/suggestion.pl; or the (23) direction, (24) display or (25) addshelf parameter to opac-shelves.pl.
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.
Exploit-DB 1
- Koha 3.20.1 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting / Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities EDB-37389 · webapps · Jun 26, 2015
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132458/Koha-ILS-3.20.x-CSRF-XSS-Traversal-SQL-Injection.html
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14418
- https://www.sba-research.org/2015/06/24/researchers-of-sba-research-found-several-critical-security-vulnerabilities-in-the-koha-library-software-via-combinatorial-testing/
- 37389 exploit
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-16-12/
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14423
- 20150625 SBA Research Vulnerability Disclosure - Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Koha ILS mailing-list
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-18-8/
- https://koha-community.org/security-release-koha-3-20-1/
- https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14416
- https://koha-community.org/koha-3-14-16-released/