Telescope 0.9.2 – Markdown Persistent Cross-Site Scripting
# Exploit Title: Persistent XSS via Markdown on Telescope <= 0.9.2 # Date: Aug 22 2014 # Exploit Author: shubs # Vendor Homepage: http://www.telescopeapp.org/ # Software Link: https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope # Version: <= 0.9.2 # CVE : CVE-2014-5144 Telescope 0.9.2 and below suffer from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability due to the lack of input sanitisation and validation performed when parsing markdown user input. An authenticated user can include links, images, code blocks and more through markdown, in the form of comments, posts or replies and more. As an example, the following vectors below can be used in comments, posts or replies to trigger the XSS: [notmalicious](javascript:window.onerror=alert;throw%20document.cookie) [a](data:text/html;base64,PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgnWFNTJyk8L3NjcmlwdD4K) Once posted as comments, the above markdown is converted to links without any sanitisation. When such links are clicked, the vector is executed successfully. Screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/6SQgUYd.png http://i.imgur.com/6VeZasj.png |