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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Moveit Automation
An issue was discovered in Progress MOVEit Automation Web Admin. A Web Admin application endpoint failed to adequately sanitize malicious input, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in a victim's browser, aka XSS. This affects 2018 - 2018.0 prior to 2018.0.3, 2018 SP1 - 2018.2 prior to 2018.2.3, 2018 SP2 - 2018.3 prior to 2018.3.7, 2019 - 2019.0 prior to 2019.0.3, 2019.1 - 2019.1 prior to 2019.1.2, and 2019.2 - 2019.2 prior to 2019.2.2. (2020-05-14, CVE-2020-12677)
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>