Vulnerabilities 2008

PR07-38 XSS on sIFR

• Advisory publicly released: Tuesday, 22 January 2008
• Vulnerability found: Monday, 12 November 2007
• Vendor informed: Monday, 19 November 2007
• Vulnerability fixed: This vulnerability has been fixed on Novemberborn sIFR 2.0.3 and Novemberborn sIFR 3r278.
• Severity level: Medium

• Credits
  Jan Fry of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
• Description
  Sites using sIFR to render fonts/text are vulnerable to a vanilla XSS within the "txt" parameter processed by the actionscript in the '<fontname>.swf' flash file.
• Proof of concept
  {att:bold}- HTML injection PoC {att:/bold}
  
  Provided the victim is tricked to load the following URL, he/she would be redirected to a third-party site.
  
  https://target.tld/<fontname>.swf?txt=<a href="http://www.procheckup.com">click me!</a>
  
  
  
  {att:bold}- XXS PoC {att:/bold}
  
  http://target.tld/fonts/FuturaLt.swf?txt=%3Ca%20href=%22javascript:alert(document.cookie)%22%3Eclick%20me!%3C/a%3E&textalign=left&offsetTop=-2&textcolor=
• How to fix
  
• Consequences
  An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of a user who clicks on a link to the target website, or visits a malicious website that requests such link.
  
  This type of attack can result in non-persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information (i.e.: session IDs) to unauthorised third parties.
• BID
  27394
• Note
  the victim user does NOT need to be authenticated for this vulnerability to be exploitable.
• CVE reference
  CVE-2008-0438
• Successfully tested on
  sIFR 2.0.2
• References
  

  
  http://www.procheckup.com/research/views/vulnerabilities

  
  http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr

  
  http://novemberborn.net/sifr

  
  
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