Disclosure of XSS Vulnerability in SharePoint 2007

Posted by rajivvishwa On May - 7 - 2010

An XSS vulnerability has been discovered and disclosed to public in SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to run arbitrary script that could result in elevation of privilege within the SharePoint site, as opposed to elevation of privilege within the workstation or server environment.

This vulnerability is discovered by High-Tech Bridge SA and has been notified to Microsoft 12 April 2010. On the day of writing of this post, the vulnerability remains unfixed.

Read HTBridge advisory here

Vulnerable URL :

http://TARGETSITE/_layouts/help.aspx?cid0=MS.WSS.manifest.xml%00%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27XSS%27%29%3C/script%3E&tid=X

Screenshot

SharePoint 2007 XSS Vulnerability

Read more at Microsoft Security Advisory (983438)

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