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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Next Generation Communication Platform
Sipwise C5 NGCP WWW Admin version 3.6.7 up to and including platform version NGCP CE 3.0 has multiple authenticated stored and reflected XSS vulnerabilities when input passed via several parameters to several scripts is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user: Stored XSS in callforward/time/set/save (POST tsetname); Reflected XSS in addressbook (GET filter); Stored XSS in addressbook/save (POST firstname, lastname, company); and Reflected XSS in statistics/versions (GET lang). (2021-04-23, CVE-2021-31583)
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>