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Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in SearchBlox

Advisory ID:HTB23256
Product:SearchBlox
Vendor:SearchBlox Software, Inc.
Vulnerable Versions:8.2 and probably prior
Tested Version:8.2
Advisory Publication:April 22, 2015 [without technical details]
Vendor Notification:April 22, 2015
Vendor Fix:May 26, 2015
Public Disclosure:June 17, 2015
Vulnerability Type:Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-79]
CVE Reference:CVE-2015-3422
Risk Level:Low
CVSSv2 Base Score:2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Solution Status:Fixed by Vendor
Discovered and Provided:High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab
 

Advisory Details:

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered XSS vulnerability in SearchBlox, which can be exploited to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against the vulnerable web application administrators.

Input passed via the "menu2" HTTP GET parameter to "/searchblox/admin/main.jsp" script is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. A remote attacker can trick a logged-in administrator to open a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and scripting code in his browser in context of the vulnerable website.

A simple XSS exploit below uses the "alert()" JS function to display a box with "ImmuniWeb" word:

http://[host]/searchblox/admin/main.jsp?menu1=adm&menu2=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Eal ert%28%27ImmuniWeb%27%29;%3C/script%3E

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Solution:
Update to SearchBlox 8.2.1


References:
[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB23256 - https://www.immuniweb.com/advisory/HTB23256 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in SearchBlox.
[2] SearchBlox - http://www.searchblox.com - SearchBlox is an Enterprise Search & Analytics solution build on Apache Lucene & Elasticsearch.
[3] Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) - http://cve.mitre.org/ - international in scope and free for public use, CVE® is a dictionary of publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures.
[4] Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) - http://cwe.mitre.org - targeted to developers and security practitioners, CWE is a formal list of software weakness types.
[5] ImmuniWeb® - Leveraging the power of machine-learning and genius of human brain to deliver the most advanced web application security and penetration testing.
[6] ImmuniWeb® SSLScan - Test your servers for security and compliance with PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST.

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