Cross-site scripting in Webmin - #VU345
Published: August 26, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: #VU345
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Webmin
Affected software:
Webmin
Webmin
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Multiple XSS vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient sanitization of user-input passed via unspecified parameters and via HTTP Referer header. 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
Install the latest version 1.600 from vendor's website.