Orion Application Server Web Examples Multiple XSS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40985

Synopsis

The remote web server includes at least one JSP application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The remote web server uses Orion Application Server, an application server hosted on a Java2 platform.

It currently makes available at least one example JSP application that fails to sanitize user-supplied input before using it to generate dynamic HTML output. Specifically, the 'item' parameter of the 'examples/jsp/sessions/carts.jsp' script, the 'fruit' parameter of 'examples/jsp/checkbox/checkresult.jsp' script, and the 'time' parameter of the 'examples/jsp/cal/cal2.jsp' script are known to be affected. An attacker may be able to leverage 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

Undeploy the web examples distributed with Orion.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2009/Sep/29

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2009/Jul/109

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40985

File Name: orion_examples_xss.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: remote

Published: 9/15/2009

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:orion:orion_application_server

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploited by Nessus: true

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2009

Reference Information

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