Ofbiz Cross-site Scripting

Apache OFBiz uses the Birt plugin (https://eclipse.github.io/birt-website/) to create data visualizations and reports. In Apache OFBiz release 18.12.05, and earlier versions, by leveraging a vulnerability in Birt (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538142), an unauthenticated malicious user could perform a stored XSS attack in order to inject a malicious payload and execute it using the stored XSS. (2022-09-02, CVE-2022-25370)

XML-RPC request are vulnerable to unsafe deserialization and Cross-Site Scripting issues in Apache OFBiz 17.12.03 (2020-07-15, CVE-2020-9496)

Data sent with contentId to /control/stream is not sanitized, allowing XSS attacks in Apache OFBiz 16.11.01 to 16.11.07. (2020-04-01, CVE-2020-1943)

The "Blog", "Forum", "Contact Us" screens of the template "ecommerce" application bundled in Apache OFBiz are weak to Stored XSS attacks. Mitigation: Upgrade to 16.11.06 or manually apply the following commits on branch 16.11: 1858438, 1858543, 1860595 and 1860616 (2019-09-11, CVE-2019-10073)

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>