Advertisement






American University Washington XSS Vulnerability

CVE Category Price Severity
N/A CWE-79 N/A Medium
Author Risk Exploitation Type Date
Exploit Alert Team High Remote 2016-08-21
CPE
cpe:cpe:/a:american_university:washington
Our sensors found this exploit at: https://cxsecurity.com/ascii/WLB-2016080197

Below is a copy:

American University Washington XSS Vulnerability[+] Exploit Title : American University Washington XSS Vulnerability
[+] Exploit Author : 4TT4CK3R
[+] Tested on : Windows , Mac , Linux kali (sana)
[+] Home Page : http://american.edu
[+] Vulnerable Address : https://www.wcl.american.edu/search.cfm?q=

[+] Description :
Recently we discovered XSS vulnerability on the American University Washington website.
if you want to search any string on the website , this website printed your searched string
in the url and you can change it from here.
ok .. we can pentesting XSS vulnerability on this website.
For doing this pentesting we can using more bypass methods of this vulnerability.
For example we searching "xss" string.
URL of websited changed to this type :
https://www.wcl.american.edu/search.cfm?q=xss#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=xss&gsc.page=1
ok. now we can running xss scripts with different bypass methods of this vulnerabuility.
We can use 'head' bypass method for pentesting xss vulnerability on this website ... Therefore :
"" 'head' <" /><script>alert('xss')</script>" 'head' >""
now on this website :
https://www.wcl.american.edu/search.cfm?q=%22%22%20%27head%27%20%3C%22%20/%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27)%3C/script%3E%22%20%27head%27%20%3E%22%22#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=salam&gsc.page=1

[+] ScreenShot :
https://i.imgsafe.org/95d0fe66df.jpg

[+] Exploited by 4TT4CK3R

[-] Patching soon ...

Copyright ©2024 Exploitalert.

This information is provided for TESTING and LEGAL RESEARCH purposes only.
All trademarks used are properties of their respective owners. By visiting this website you agree to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Impressum