Dotnetnuke Cross-site Scripting

DotNetNuke (DNN) 9.9.1 CMS is vulnerable to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the user profile biography section which allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary code via a crafted payload. (2022-07-20, CVE-2021-31858)

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) through 9.4.4 allows XSS (issue 1 of 2). (2020-02-24, CVE-2020-5186)

Stored Cross-Site Scripting in DotNetNuke (DNN) Version before 9.4.0 allows remote attackers to store and embed the malicious script into the admin notification page. The exploit could be used to perfom any action with admin privileges such as managing content, adding users, uploading backdoors to the server, etc. Successful exploitation occurs when an admin user visits a notification page with stored cross-site scripting. (2019-09-26, CVE-2019-12562)

DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) 9.1.1 allows cross-site scripting (XSS) via XML. (2019-03-21, CVE-2018-14486)

Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.

The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:

https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete

what results in:

<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>

In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:

https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>

and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:

<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>