pLog register.php HTML Injection

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2192

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to an HTML injection attack.

Description

The remote host is running pLog, a blog system implemented in PHP. It is reported that every version up to and including 0.3.2 are prone to an HTML injection issue in the user registration form. An attacker may use the 'username' and 'blog' fields to inject malicous HTML codes and scripts in web pages. The malicious code will be executed by a victim's browser when a tampered page is displayed. For example, the summary.php page that lists every user and their blog on the system.

Solution

No solution is known at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 2192

Family: Web Servers

Published: 9/1/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X

Reference Information

BID: 11082

Detections

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