Advisory: Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in Openconf Conference Management Software RedTeam found a cross site scripting vulnerability in openconf which results in possible session takeover. Details ======= Product: openconf Affected Version: 1.04, probably also older versions Immune Version: 1.10 (unverified) OS affected: all Security-Risk: high Remote-Exploit: yes Vendor-URL: http://www.openconf.org Vendor-Status: informed, fixed Advisory-URL: http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2005-007 Advisory-Status: public CVE: CAN-2005-0407 (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0407#) Introduction ============ Openconf is a php/mysql based conference management system. Authors can submit papers and the conference organisers can review these. Cross site scripting is possible because the user input is not filtered. Through this the session of a user with higher privileges can be taken over. More Details ============ Inputs from an anonymous author submitting a paper can contain script code. This code will be executed when another user reviews this paper. Proof of Concept ================ Submit a paper and enter "title " as title. The script will be executed when the admin "chair" reviews this paper. Workaround ========== None known. Fix === Update to 1.10 (unverified). Security Risk ============= High. Conferences managed by openconf could be arbitrarily influenced. History ======= 2005-01-xx vendor informed 2005-02-12 support@zakongroup.com confirmed 1.10 is fixed 2005-02-12 CVE number requested 2005-02-14 assigned https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0407 2005-02-14 posted 2009-05-08 Updated Advisory URL RedTeam ======= RedTeam is a penetration testing group working at the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems at RWTH-Aachen University. You can find more information on the RedTeam Project at http://www.redteam-pentesting.de