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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Manageengine Desktop Central
Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.430 allows HTML injection via a modified Report Name in a New Custom Report. (2021-01-06, CVE-2019-16962)
ManageEngine_DesktopCentral.exe in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10 allows HTML injection on the user administration page via the description of a role. (2020-03-23, CVE-2019-15510)
Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.271 has XSS via the "Features & Articles" search field to the /advsearch.do?SUBREQUEST=XMLHTTP URI. (2018-09-21, CVE-2018-16833)
Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central version 9.1.0 build 91099 has multiple XSS issues that were fixed in build 92026. (2018-03-15, CVE-2018-8722)
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>