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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:51:31 +0100
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Dispute CVE-2012-5903 SMF index.php
scheduled-parameter XSS
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:14:26 +0100
Moritz Naumann <oss-security@...itz-naumann.com> wrote:
> On 31.12.2012 11:42 Henri Salo wrote:
> [..]
> > Until someone provides a working PoC I dispute this issue. SMF
> > hasn't replied to my emails about this. Please note there is
> > several comments[1][2] in forums about this too.
> >
> [..]
> > It's not a security vulnerability if attacker already has
> > administrator access to the application. Should we REJECT
> > CVE-2012-5903?
>
> Based on the authors' description it would seem more likely that the
> attack would use social engineering to trick the legitimate forum
> admin into accessing this URL with a payload in it, which would then
> trigger in his browser and disclose the admins' session cookie to an
> attacker by means of cross site scripting. Like you, I don't see how
> the value passed to the "scheduled" parameter would be echoed out,
> though.
That's pretty much what is called CSRF, isn't it? So it's a CSRF that
can trigger an XSS.
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