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XAMPP 1.7.7 Multiple URI Based Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2011-5054
Release Date
07 November 2011
Vendor
Affected Version
1.7.7 (Windows)
CVE
N/A
Tested On
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN)
Summary

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.

Description

XAMPP suffers from multiple XSS issues in several scripts that use the 'PHP_SELF' variable. The vulnerabilities can be triggered in the 'xamppsecurity.php', 'cds.php' and 'perlinfo.pl' because there isn't any filtering to the mentioned variable in the affected scripts. Attackers can exploit these weaknesses to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
N/A
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
07.11.2011Initial release
09.11.2011Added reference [3] and [4]