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Washington Courts website vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-site scripting

Vulnerability Note VU#807665

Original Release Date: 2010-09-09 | Last Revised: 2010-10-20

Overview

The Washington Courts website (http://www.courts.wa.gov/) is vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-site scripting. An attacker could gain access to information stored on the site or manipulate how the site appears to victims who browse to an attacker-supplied URL.

Description

The Washington Courts website (http://www.courts.wa.gov/) is vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-site scripting. More information is available in an advisory from IOActive.

Impact

Based on information from the Washington Courts, there appears to be little or no consequence to the SQL injection vulnerability. The Washington Courts system has stated that there is no sensitive information on the site and that the site has read-only access to back-end databases. Assuming there are no exceptions, an attacker could only gain read access to publicly available information.

An attacker could exploit the cross-site scripting vulnerability to manipulate the site's appearance to a victim who browsed to an attacker-supplied URL. An attacker may be able to entice a victim to provide sensitive information in the context of the Washington Courts website. It does not appear that the site features user authentication, and no authentication information appears in cookies.

Solution

We are currently unaware of a solution to this problem.

Do not access untrusted URLs; instead, use trusted bookmarks or type URLs directly. Consider disabling scripts from untrusted domains, and generally follow secure browsing practices.

Vendor Information

807665
 

Washington Courts Affected

Notified:  April 13, 2010 Updated: August 31, 2010

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

We are not aware of further vendor information regarding this vulnerability.


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References

Acknowledgements

These vulnerabilities were reported by IOActive.

This document was written by Art Manion.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Date Public: 2010-09-07
Date First Published: 2010-09-09
Date Last Updated: 2010-10-20 20:00 UTC
Document Revision: 18

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