#VU43889 Cross-site scripting in Kajona - CVE-2012-3805
Published: July 12, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Kajona
kajona
Description
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the getAllPassedParams function in system/functions.php in Kajona before 3.4.2 when processing the (1) absender_name, (2) absender_email, or (3) absender_nachricht parameter to the content page; (4) comment_name, (5) comment_subject, or (6) comment_message parameter to the postacomment module; (7) module parameter to index.php; (8) action parameter to the admin login page; (9) pv or (10) pe parameter in a list action to the user module; (11) user_username, (12) user_email, (13) user_forename, (14) user_name, (15) user_street, (16) user_postal, (17) user_city, (18) user_tel, or (19) user_mobil parameter in a newUser action to the user module; (20) group_name or (21) group_desc parameter in a groupNew action to the user module; (22) name, (23) browsername, (24) seostring, (25) keywords, or (26) folder_id parameter in a newPage action to the pages module; (27) element_name or (28) element_cachetime parameter in a newElement action in the pages module; (29) aspect_name parameter in a newAspect action in the system module; (30) filemanager_name, (31) filemanager_path, (32) filemanager_upload_filter, or (33) filemanager_view_filter parameter in a NewRepo action to the filemanager module; or (34) archive_title or (35) archive_path parameter in a newArchive action to the downloads module. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. 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.