Vulnerabilities 2009

PR08-08 Several XSS on Orion Application server 2.0 to 2.0.8

• Advisory publicly released: Monday, 7 September 2009
• Vulnerability found: Thursday, 15 May 2008
  Revalidated 23 July 2009
• Severity level: Medium

• Credits
  Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
• Description
  Various Orion application application server example pages are vulnerable to XSS. Orion application server is a java based web application server, http://www.orionserver.com/.
  
  Note: Orion application server was tested on Windows XP and JRE 1.6.0_14
  
  The following demonstrate XSS:
  
  1) http://10.0.2.177:8080/examples/jsp/sessions/carts.jsp?item=alert(1)&submit=add
  
  2) http://10.0.2.177:8080/examples/jsp/checkbox/checkresult.jsp?fruit=alert(1)
  
  3) http://10.0.2.177:8080/examples/jsp/cal/cal2.jsp?time=alert(1)
• Proof of concept
  
• How to fix
  Remove sample scripts from live environments.
• 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 a Orion Application server site. Such code would run within the security context of the target domain. 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.
• References
  

  ProCheckUp Vulnerabilities
  http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager

  
  
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