SB2020080321 - Cross-site scripting in ocportal.com ocPortal

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9549)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists in "OcPortal 9.0.20" due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the OCF_EMOTICON_CELL.tpl FIELD_NAME field to data/emoticons.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• https://github.com/cybersecurityworks/Disclosed/issues/11
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/19/2