phpIPAM XSS Alert: When Your Subnet Masks Get a Little Too Interactive
Beware of the “closeClass” parameter in phpIPAM 1.6! It’s so vulnerable to reflected XSS, even your grandma’s cookie recipe could be at risk. Just one click, and boom—alert(1) all over your screen. Stay safe, unless you enjoy alarming pop-ups more than a cat enjoys a laser pointer.
Hot Take:
Looks like phpIPAM just found out that “closeClass” isn’t an elite hacking school, but rather a glaring invitation for XSS fun! Time to sharpen those coding pencils and get to patching before the pranksters get to popping up alerts faster than you can say “JavaScript injection!”
Key Points:
– phpIPAM version 1.6 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS attack via the “closeClass” parameter in popup.php.
– The vulnerability allows attackers to inject scripts that can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the user’s browser.
– No prior sanitization mechanisms were in place to escape the HTML attributes, leading to this vulnerability.
– The attack can be carried out using a simple GET request with a crafted URL.
– A patch is needed to prevent exploitation by escaping or validating user input.