HTTP: Silent Storm Portal Privilege Escalation

This signature detects attempts to raise the privileges on an account for the Silent Storm PHP Portal.

Extended Description

Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. The issues result from insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The following specific issues are reported to affect the application: Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This cross-site scripting issue can permit a remote attacker to create a malicious URI link to the vulnerable portal that includes hostile HTML and script code. This attack can allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks. Silent-Storm Portal is reported prone to an input validation vulnerability that results in the corruption of the Silent-Storm Portal database. It is demonstrated that a remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to gain administrative access by adding a malicious user level database field.

Affected Products

Silent-storm silent-storm_portal

Short Name
HTTP:PHP:SILENT-STORM-ADMIN
Severity
Warning
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
HTTP
Keywords
CVE-2004-1567 Escalation Portal Privilege Silent Storm bid:11284
Release Date
10/21/2004
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3336
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Silent-storm

CVSS Score

7.5

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