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1. OVERVIEW ocPoral CMS 7.1.5 and lower versions are vulnerable to Open URL Redirection. 2. BACKGROUND ocPortal is the website Content Management System (a CMS) for building and maintaining a dynamic website. ocPortal's powerful feature-set means there's always a way to accomplish your vision. Not only does ocPortal's CMS have all the features you'd expect: for instance photo galleries, news, file downloads and community forums/chats, but it does so whilst meeting the highest accessibility and professional standards. It is also smart enough to go beyond page management, to automatically handle search engine optimisation, and provide aggressive hack attack prevention. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION ocPoral CMS 7.1.5 and lower versions contain a flaw that allows a remote cross site redirection attack. This flaw exists because the application does not properly sanitise the "redirect" parameter. This allows an attacker to create a specially crafted URL, tha...

XSS vulnerability in HTTP header location such as Referer was largely ignored as non-exploitable attack vector after browser plugins' (such as Flash) capability of sending arbitrary HTTP Request header had been restricted.  In this Proof-of-Concept, we did not use any browser plugins to accomplish the Referer Header XSS against Microsoft Internet Explorer all versions.   We prepared the IE Referer XSSer page very long ago but only recently we enhanced it for easy generation of PoC link.  Generator:  http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/pentest/ie-referer-xsser.php Demo:  http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/view/misc/ie-referer-xsser/