[OFBIZ-178] Cross site scripting vulnerability in Forum

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Trunk
• Fix Version/s: Trunk
• Component/s: ecommerce
• Sprint: Bug Crush Event - 21/2/2015
• Assignee: David E. Jones
• Reporter: Eriks Dobelis
• Created: 23/Aug/06 06:57
• Updated: 29/Nov/15 13:30
• Resolved: 14/Feb/09 07:39

Description

Currently HTML tags are filtered from forum messages by client side javascript (whyzzywig.js). If JavaScript is turned off (or local webproxy is used to filter or change the script), then user can post a forum message containing any HTML code, including <script> tags, e.g. <script>alert('test');</script>

This is classic cross site scripting problem with all the consequences (e.g. writing scripts to steal active cookies).

Also, currently a lot is supplied as hidden fields, which probably means that user could change that text. I have not checked that, but as there are fields like dataResourceTypeId, contentTypeId then probably user can create any type of content.
<input type="hidden" name="VIEW_INDEX"/>
<input type="hidden" name="threadView"/>
<input type="hidden" name="forumGroupId"/>
<input type="hidden" name="dataResourceTypeId" value="ELECTRONIC_TEXT"/>
<input type="hidden" name="forumId" value="ASK"/>
<input type="hidden" name="contentName" value="New thread/message/response"/>
<input type="hidden" name="contentTypeId" value="DOCUMENT"/>
<input type="hidden" name="ownerContentId" value="ASK"/>
<input type="hidden" name="contentIdTo" value="10007"/>

<input type="hidden" name="contentAssocTypeId" value="RESPONSE"/>

Issue Links

• is cloned by: OFBIZ-1476 XSS vulnerability in OFBiz Login Form
• is part of: OFBIZ-1525 Issue to group security concerns
• is related to: OFBIZ-1193 html code is not sanitized in all the text input field
• relates to: OFBIZ-260 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS)