Secunia Security Advisory - Aria-Security Team have reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
cPanel "resname" Cross-Site Scripting
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26191
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26191/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
cPanel 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/5280/
cPanel 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1110/
cPanel 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/1109/
cPanel 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/3184/
cPanel 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/3185/
cPanel 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/3186/
DESCRIPTION:
Aria-Security Team have reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.
Input passed to the "resname" parameter in
frontend/x/htaccess/changepro.html is not properly sanitised before
being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site.
Successful exploitation requires that the target user has valid user
credentials.
The vulnerability is reported in all 10.x versions, as well as all
prior versions.
SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a web proxy.
Do not follow links from untrusted sources.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aria-Security Team
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