SmarterMail Subject Field XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31787

Synopsis

The remote web server contains an ASP application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running SmarterMail, an email and collaboration server for Windows.

The webmail component of the version of SmarterMail installed on the remote host fails to sanitize the Subject field of messages before using it to generate dynamic HTML output. An unauthenticated attacker may be able to exploit this to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a user's browser to be executed within the security context of the affected site.

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.3.2981 or later.

See Also

https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488313/100/0/threaded

https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/business-email-server

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31787

File Name: smartermail_subject_xss.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: remote

Published: 4/7/2008

Updated: 4/7/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: www/ASP

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0872

BID: 27878

CWE: 79

Secunia: 29024