Microsoft SharePoint Services Help.aspx 'cid0' Parameter XSS

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 47580

Synopsis

An application running on the remote web server has a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The version of Microsoft SharePoint Services running on the remote host has a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Input sent to the 'cid0' parameter of '/_layouts/help.aspx' is not properly sanitized.

A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into making a malicious request, resulting in the execution of arbitrary script code.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for SharePoint Services.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c48e296

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2010/Apr/246

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS10-039

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47580

File Name: sharepoint_help_xss.nasl

Version: $Revision: 1.21 $

Type: remote

Published: 2010/07/01

Modified: 2017/08/30

Dependencies: 10107, 38157

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSSv2

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: www/ASP, www/sharepoint

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2010/06/08

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2010/04/28

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0817

BID: 39776

OSVDB: 64170

MSFT: MS10-039

IAVA: 2010-A-0079

Secunia: 39603

MSKB: 979441, 979445, 980923, 983444

CWE: 20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990