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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Identity Manager
Dashboards and progressiveProfileForms in ForgeRock Identity Manager before 7.0.0 are vulnerable to stored XSS. The vulnerability affects versions 6.5.0.4, 6.0.0.6. (2020-08-31, CVE-2020-17465)
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges when it does not properly sanitize a specially crafted attribute value being displayed to a user on an affected MIM 2016 server, aka "Microsoft Identity Manager XSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." (2018-02-26, CVE-2018-0908)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
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>