PR10-03 Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS) within Apache Axis2 administration console

Source:
http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerability_manager/vulnerabilities/pr10-03

Advisory publicly released:  Friday, 21 May 2010
Vulnerability found:  Saturday, 30 January 2010
Severity level:  Medium

Credits
Richard Brain of ProCheckUp Ltd (www.procheckup.com)

Description:
Axis2 is a web services/SOAP/WDSL engine, widely used within many commercial products Procheckup has found it is vulnerable to a vanilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (XSS).  Axis2 is used within SAP Business Objects 12 and 3com's IMC network management tool.

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/

Comfirmed vulnerable versions:
1.4.1

Proof of concept:

The following demonstrate the XSS flaw:

Authenticated XSS normally login as admin and axis2

http://target-domain.foo:8080/imcws/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/axis2-web/axis2-admin/axis2-admin/engagingglobally?
submit=%2bEngage%2b&modules=<script>alert(1)</script>

Note: The above path will change depending on how axis2 has been installed.

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