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cPanel Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23116
Release Date: 2006-12-05
Last Update: 2007-01-08
Popularity: 6,763 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:cPanel 10.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6198


Description:
Aria-Security has reported some vulnerabilities in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to various parameters is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Examples:

cPanel:
http://[host]/files/fileop.html?opdir=[path]&opfile=[file]&fileop=[code]
http://[host]/files/editit.html?dir=/home/xdemo&file=[code]
http://[host]/files/createdir.html?dir=[code]
http://[host]/htaccess/dohtaccess.html?dir=[code]
http://[host]/err/erredit.html?dir=[code]
http://[host]/err/erredit.html?dir=[directory]&file=[code]
http://[host]/files/createfile.html?dir=[code]

WHM:
http://[host]/scripts2/dochangeemail?user=demo&domain=demo.com&email=[code]
http://[host]/scripts/editpkg?pkg=[code]
http://[host]/scripts2/domts2?domain=[code]
http://[host]/scripts/editzone?domain=[code]
http://[host]/scripts2/dofeaturemanager?action=addfeature&feature=[code]
http://[host]/scripts/park?domain=demo.com&ndomain=[code]

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 11 beta. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Fixed in version 11.1.0 (build 4).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Aria-Security

Changelog:
2006-01-08: Updated "Solution" section.


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