HTB22790: XSS in Pivotx

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Vulnerability ID: HTB22790
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_pivotx_1.html
Product: Pivotx
Vendor: Pivotx Team ( http://pivotx.net/ ) 
Vulnerable Version: 2.2.0
Vendor Notification: 11 January 2011 
Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Awaiting Vendor Solution
Risk level: Medium 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing 
(http://www.htbridge.ch/) 

Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/includes/timwrapper.php" 
script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "src" variable.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of 
the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure 
or modification of sensitive data.

The following PoC is available:


http://[host]/includes/timwrapper.php?src=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22XSS%22%29;%3C/script%3E