Plugin ID | 50 |
Plugin name | dasBlog prior 1.6.0 Referer and User-Agent HTML injection |
Plugin filename | dasBlog prior 1.6.0 Referer and User-Agent HTML injection.plugin |
Plugin filesize | 3209 bytes |
Plugin family | CGI |
Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin created company | computec.ch |
Plugin created date | 2004/09/03 |
Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
Plugin updated date | 2004/11/14 |
Plugin version | 2.0 |
Plugin changelog | Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.1. Improved the pattern matching and introduced the plugin changelog in 2.0 |
Plugin protocol | tcp |
Plugin port | 80 |
Plugin procedure detection | open|send GET http://www.computec.ch HTTP/1.0\nProxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# ### *(Powered By:)? newtelligence dasBlog 0.* OR HTTP/#.# ### *(Powered By:)? newtelligence dasBlog 1.[1-5].* OR HTTP/#.# ### *(Powered By:)? newtelligence dasBlog 1.6.0* |
Plugin detection accuracy | 95 |
Plugin comment | It is copied by the Nessus plugin. |
Bug affected | dasBlog prior 1.6.0 |
Bug not affected | dasBlog newer 1.6.0 or other blog solutions |
Bug vulnerability class | Cross Site Scripting |
Bug description | The remote host is running dasBlog, a .NET blog system. It is reported that versions up to and including 1.6.0 are vulnerable to an HTML injection issue. The application does not sanitize the Referer and User-Agent HTTP headers. An attacker may use this weakness to include malicious code in the 'Activity and Events Viewer' which may be executed by an administrator displaying this page. |
Bug solution | Upgrade to the latest version of this software or patch the solution and firewall unwanted requests. |
Bug fixing time | Approx. 30 minutes |
Bug exploit availability | Maybe |
Bug exploit url | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11086/exploit/ |
Bug remote | Yes |
Bug local | Yes |
Bug severity | Medium |
Bug popularity | 3 |
Bug simplicity | 6 |
Bug impact | 7 |
Bug risk | 4 |
Bug Nessus risk | Medium |
Bug check tools | Nessus is able to do the same check. |
Source SecurityFocus BID | 11086 |
Source Nessus ID | 14639 |
Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |