Cross-site scripting in Dokeos - CVE-2014-1877

Detailed vulnerability description

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.

An input validation error exists in Dokeos 2.1.1 when processing the (1) Phone, (2) Street, (3) Address line, (4) Zip code, or (5) City field to main/auth/profile.php; (6) Subject field to main/social/groups.php; or (7) Message body field to main/messages/view_message.php. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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.

How to mitigate CVE-2014-1877

Sources

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/258
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/286
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65416
• http://www.xchg.info/?p=381
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91295