XSS, revver.com, Cross Site Scripting, Report, Proof of Concept

XSS in revver.com | Vulnerability Crawler Report

Report generated by Unforgivable Vulnerabilities, DORK Search, Exploit Research at Sun Jan 09 07:26:48 CST 2011.

DORK CWE-79 XSS Report

1. Cross-site scripting (reflected) next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://revver.com
Path:	/video/426755/peanut-labs/

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 3 is copied into the value of an HTML tag attribute which is encapsulated in double quotation marks. The payload f05e7"><script>alert(1)</script>a386b442d0f was submitted in the REST URL parameter 3. This input was echoed unmodified in the application's response.

This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's response.

Issue background

Reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities arise when data is copied from a request and echoed into the application's immediate response in an unsafe way. An attacker can use the vulnerability to construct a request which, if issued by another application user, will cause JavaScript code supplied by the attacker to execute within the user's browser in the context of that user's session with the application.

The attacker-supplied code can perform a wide variety of actions, such as stealing the victim's session token or login credentials, performing arbitrary actions on the victim's behalf, and logging their keystrokes.

Users can be induced to issue the attacker's crafted request in various ways. For example, the attacker can send a victim a link containing a malicious URL in an email or instant message. They can submit the link to popular web sites that allow content authoring, for example in blog comments. And they can create an innocuous looking web site which causes anyone viewing it to make arbitrary cross-domain requests to the vulnerable application (using either the GET or the POST method).

The security impact of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities is dependent upon the nature of the vulnerable application, the kinds of data and functionality which it contains, and the other applications which belong to the same domain and organisation. If the application is used only to display non-sensitive public content, with no authentication or access control functionality, then a cross-site scripting flaw may be considered low risk. However, if the same application resides on a domain which can access cookies for other more security-critical applications, then the vulnerability could be used to attack those other applications, and so may be considered high risk. Similarly, if the organisation which owns the application is a likely target for phishing attacks, then the vulnerability could be leveraged to lend credibility to such attacks, by injecting Trojan functionality into the vulnerable application, and exploiting users' trust in the organisation in order to capture credentials for other applications which it owns. In many kinds of application, such as those providing online banking functionality, cross-site scripting should always be considered high risk.

Issue remediation

In most situations where user-controllable data is copied into application responses, cross-site scripting attacks can be prevented using two layers of defenses:

Input should be validated as strictly as possible on arrival, given the kind of content which it is expected to contain. For example, personal names should consist of alphabetical and a small range of typographical characters, and be relatively short; a year of birth should consist of exactly four numerals; email addresses should match a well-defined regular expression. Input which fails the validation should be rejected, not sanitised.
User input should be HTML-encoded at any point where it is copied into application responses. All HTML metacharacters, including < > " ' and =, should be replaced with the corresponding HTML entities (< > etc).

In cases where the application's functionality allows users to author content using a restricted subset of HTML tags and attributes (for example, blog comments which allow limited formatting and linking), it is necessary to parse the supplied HTML to validate that it does not use any dangerous syntax; this is a non-trivial task.

Request

GET /video/426755/peanut-labsf05e7"><script>alert(1)</script>a386b442d0f/ HTTP/1.1
Host: revver.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:57:06 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4.3
Expires: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:02:22 GMT
Vary: Cookie
Last-Modified: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:57:22 GMT
ETag: 183ed9bf59280eb87751e627ee9c8247
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Content-Length: 81323

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<form action="/account/login/?next=/video/426755/peanut-labsf05e7"><script>alert(1)</script>a386b442d0f/" autocomplete="off" method="post">
...[SNIP]...

2. Cleartext submission of password previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://revver.com
Path:	/video/426755/peanut-labs/

Issue detail

The page contains a form with the following action URL, which is submitted over clear-text HTTP:

http://revver.com/account/login/?next=/video/426755/peanut-labs/

The form contains the following password field:

password

Issue background

Passwords submitted over an unencrypted connection are vulnerable to capture by an attacker who is suitably positioned on the network. This includes any malicious party located on the user's own network, within their ISP, within the ISP used by the application, and within the application's hosting infrastructure. Even if switched networks are employed at some of these locations, techniques exist to circumvent this defense and monitor the traffic passing through switches.

Issue remediation

The application should use transport-level encryption (SSL or TLS) to protect all sensitive communications passing between the client and the server. Communications that should be protected include the login mechanism and related functionality, and any functions where sensitive data can be accessed or privileged actions can be performed. These areas of the application should employ their own session handling mechanism, and the session tokens used should never be transmitted over unencrypted communications. If HTTP cookies are used for transmitting session tokens, then the secure flag should be set to prevent transmission over clear-text HTTP.

Request

GET /video/426755/peanut-labs/ HTTP/1.1
Host: revver.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:32:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4.3
Expires: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:33:33 GMT
Vary: Cookie
Last-Modified: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:28:33 GMT
ETag: b8fdf6d76062d0f9cc23a77e2e8edebb
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Content-Length: 81237

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
<div class="login-form-area">
<form action="/account/login/?next=/video/426755/peanut-labs/" autocomplete="off" method="post">
<ul class="inline-form clearfix" style="">
...[SNIP]...
</label> <input id="password" name="password" type="password" /></li>
...[SNIP]...

3. Cross-domain script include previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://revver.com
Path:	/video/426755/peanut-labs/

Issue detail

The response dynamically includes the following script from another domain:

http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js

Issue background

When an application includes a script from an external domain, this script is executed by the browser within the security context of the invoking application. The script can therefore do anything that the application's own scripts can do, such as accessing application data and performing actions within the context of the current user.

If you include a script from an external domain, then you are trusting that domain with the data and functionality of your application, and you are trusting the domain's own security to prevent an attacker from modifying the script to perform malicious actions within your application.

Issue remediation

Scripts should not be included from untrusted domains. If you have a requirement which a third-party script appears to fulfil, then you should ideally copy the contents of that script onto your own domain and include it from there. If that is not possible (e.g. for licensing reasons) then you should consider reimplementing the script's functionality within your own code.

Request

GET /video/426755/peanut-labs/ HTTP/1.1
Host: revver.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:32:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) mod_python/3.1.4 Python/2.4.3
Expires: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:33:33 GMT
Vary: Cookie
Last-Modified: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:28:33 GMT
ETag: b8fdf6d76062d0f9cc23a77e2e8edebb
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Content-Length: 81237

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
...[SNIP]...
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://partner.googleadservices.com/gampad/google_service.js">
</script>
...[SNIP]...

Report generated by Unforgivable Vulnerabilities, DORK Search, Exploit Research at Sun Jan 09 07:26:48 CST 2011.