CVE-2019-0186

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Published 2022-05-24 · Modified 2024-02-18

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

Cross-site Scripting in Apache Pluto Chatroom demo

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-46759 webapps java text · 1 KB

Dhiraj Mishra · 2019-04-26

Apache Pluto 3.0.0 / 3.0.1 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Exploit Title: Stored XSS
# Date: 25-04-2019
# Exploit Author: Dhiraj Mishra
# Vendor Homepage: https://portals.apache.org/pluto
# Software Link: https://portals.apache.org/pluto/download.html
# Version: 3.0.0, 3.0.1
# Tested on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
# CVE: CVE-2019-0186
# References:
# https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0186
# https://portals.apache.org/pluto/security.html
# https://www.inputzero.io/2019/04/apache-pluto-xss.html

Summary:
The "Chat Room" portlet demo that ships with the Apache Pluto Tomcat bundle
contains a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Specifically, if an
attacker can input raw HTML markup into the "Name" or "Message" input
fields and submits the form, then the inputted HTML markup will be embedded
in the subsequent web page.

Technical observation:
- Start the Apache Pluto Tomcat bundle
- Visit http://localhost:8080/pluto/portal/Chat%20Room%20Demo
- In the name field, enter:
     <input type="text" value="Name field XSS></input>
- Click Submit
- In the message field, enter:
     <input type="text" value="Message field XSS></input>

Patch:
3.0.x users should upgrade to 3.1.0

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Maven	org.apache.portals.pluto:chatRoomDemo	`>=3.0.0,<3.1.0`	`3.1.0`

References

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

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