| 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 |