PT-2009-4246 · Matt Wright · Formmail

Published 2009-05-22 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-1776

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Matt Wright FormMail version 1.92 and possibly earlier

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via javascript: URIs in the request and return link url parameters. This can be exploited through API endpoints that accept these parameters, such as "/FormMail.pl" with the request and return link url parameters.

Recommendations: For Matt Wright FormMail version 1.92 and possibly earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider validating and sanitizing the request and return link url parameters to prevent injection of arbitrary web script or HTML. Restrict access to the FormMail.pl script until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1776

Affected Products

Formmail

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/8950 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1776 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1776 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/34929 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/503446/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://ush.it/team/ush/hack-formmail_192/adv.txt · Note