J-Security Center

Title: Basit Submit Module Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

Basit is a Content Management System implemented in PHP.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported for Basit. Specifically the 'title' parameter in the 'index.php' page is not sanitized of malicious HTML script code. As a result of this deficiency an attacker may exploit the vulnerability by creating a specially crafted URL that includes malicious HTML code as URI parameters for Basit's Submit module.

This may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks.

This vulnerability was reported to affect Basit 1.0. It is not currently known if other versions are affected.

Affected Products:

  • Basit Basit 1.0.0

References:

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