Kiwix Cross Site Scripting

2015.01.20

Credit: Emmanuel Engelhart

Risk: Low

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2015-1032

CWE: CWE-79

CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Medium

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: None

CVE-2015-1032

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the "Kiwix" zim file reader was
discovered by Emmanuel Engelhart on 31 October 2014, and was reported on
Sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/bugs/763/

This vulnerability does not affect most users of the program, only those
using the "kiwix-serve" binary to allow zim files to be read over a network.

Input to the search bar was not sanitised, thus allowing arbitrary
javascript code to be sent via servers running this program.

This image shows a proof of concept:
http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/bugs/763/attachment/ppdhmq.png

This vulnerability was fixed by Emmanuel Engelhart on 8 January 2015
with this commit:
http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/kiwix/ci/d1af5f0375c6db24d4071acf4806735725fd206e

References:

http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/kiwix/ci/d1af5f0375c6db24d4071acf4806735725fd206e

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