Vigil@nce - Webmin: Cross Site Scripting
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting of Webmin, in order
to run JavaScript code in the context of the web site.
Impacted products: Webmin.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: client access/rights.
Provenance: privileged account.
Confidence: unique source (2/5).
Creation date: 15/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Webmin product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data before inserting them in
generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting of
Webmin, in order to run JavaScript code in the context of the web
site.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Webmin-Cross-Site-Scripting-28275