Report generated by XSS.CX at Thu Nov 25 14:41:43 CST 2010.

Cross Site Scripting Reports | Hoyt LLC Research

1. Cross-site scripting (reflected) next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://www.aishub.net
Path:	/ais-tracking-statistics.html

Issue detail

The value of REST URL parameter 1 is copied into the value of an HTML tag attribute which is encapsulated in double quotation marks. The payload ec857"><script>alert(1)</script>fc9de67a31b was submitted in the REST URL parameter 1. 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 /ec857"><script>alert(1)</script>fc9de67a31b HTTP/1.1
Host: www.aishub.net
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Connection: close

Response

HTTP/1.0 404 NOT FOUND
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:32:24 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.8
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
Set-Cookie: 877e9b1f2dce5d6a80a22b3170396328=t90mckk0fh46d66tujgkm4s6s4; path=/
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
Set-Cookie: ja_purity_tpl=ja_purity; expires=Tue, 15-Nov-2011 16:32:24 GMT; path=/
Expires: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:32:24 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 7196
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<!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-gb" lang="en-gb">

<
...[SNIP]...
<base href="http://www.aishub.net/ec857"><script>alert(1)</script>fc9de67a31b" />
...[SNIP]...

2. Directory listing previous

Summary

Severity:	Information
Confidence:	Firm
Host:	http://www.aishub.net
Path:	/templates/ja_purity/images/header/

Issue description

Directory listings do not necessarily constitute a security vulnerability. Any sensitive resources within your web root should be properly access-controlled in any case, and should not be accessible by an unauthorised party who happens to know the URL. Nevertheless, directory listings can aid an attacker by enabling them to quickly identify the resources at a given path, and proceed directly to analysing and attacking them.

Issue remediation

There is not usually any good reason to provide directory listings, and disabling them may place additional hurdles in the path of an attacker. This can normally be achieved in two ways:

Configure your web server to prevent directory listings for all paths beneath the web root;
Place into each directory a default file (such as index.htm) which the web server will display instead of returning a directory listing.

Request

GET /templates/ja_purity/images/header/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.aishub.net
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.aishub.net/ec857%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3Efc9de67a31b
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: 877e9b1f2dce5d6a80a22b3170396328=t90mckk0fh46d66tujgkm4s6s4; ja_purity_tpl=ja_purity

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:34:13 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.8
Content-Length: 797
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Index of /templates/ja_purity/images/header</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Index of /templates/ja_purity/images/header</h1
...[SNIP]...
<th><a href="?C=N;O=D">Name</a></th><th><a href="?C=M;O=A">Last modified</a></th><th><a href="?C=S;O=A">Size</a></th><th><a href="?C=D;O=A">Description</a>
...[SNIP]...
<td><a href="/templates/ja_purity/images/">Parent Directory</a>
...[SNIP]...

Report generated by XSS.CX at Thu Nov 25 14:41:43 CST 2010.