Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-1597 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Invision Power Board Topics.PHP Highlite Parameter

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");

if (description) {
  script_id(18203);
  script_version("1.22");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1597", "CVE-2005-1598");
  script_bugtraq_id(13529, 13532, 13534, 13375);

  script_name(english:"Invision Power Board < 2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS)");
 
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server contains a PHP application that is vulnerable to
multiple attacks." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its banner, the version of Invision Power Board on the
remote host suffers from multiple vulnerabilities :

  - SQL Injection Vulnerability
    The application fails to sanitize user-input supplied 
    through the 'pass_hash' cookie in the 'sources/login.php'
    script, which can be exploited to affect database
    queries, potentially revealing sensitive information.

  - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
    An attacker can pass arbitrary HTML and script code 
    through the 'highlite' parameter of the 
    'sources/search.php' and 'sources/topics.php' scripts." );
  # http://web.archive.org/web/20080918071547/http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00073-05052005
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?20da0580" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/May/70" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Jul/255" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Invision Power Board 2.0.4 or later." );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:ND");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
 script_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990);

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2005/05/09");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2005/05/05");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe",value:"cpe:/a:invisionpower:invision_power_board");
script_end_attributes();

 
  summary["english"] = "Checks for multiple vulnerabilities in Invision Power Board < 2.0.4";
  script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
 
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");

  script_dependencies("invision_power_board_detect.nasl");
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_require_keys("www/invision_power_board");
  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80);
if (!can_host_php(port:port)) exit(0);


# Test an install.
install = get_kb_item(string("www/", port, "/invision_power_board"));
if (isnull(install)) exit(0);
matches = eregmatch(string:install, pattern:"^(.+) under (/.*)$");
if (!isnull(matches)) {
  ver = matches[1];

  if (ver =~ "^([01]\.|2\.0\.[0-3][^0-9]*)")
  {
   security_hole(port);
   set_kb_item(name: 'www/'+port+'/XSS', value: TRUE);
   set_kb_item(name: 'www/'+port+'/SQLInjection', value: TRUE);
  }
}