DOM Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability Identified in iCheck

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: DOM XSS Vulnerability in iCheck
Affected Software: iCheck
Affected Versions: v1.x and possibly below
Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/fronteed/iCheck  
Vulnerability Type: Cross-site Scripting
Severity: Important
Status: Not fixed
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-15-020

Technical Details

Proof of Concept URL for XSS in iCheck:

/icheck-1.x/demo/#<img/src/onerror=alert(1)>

For more information on this vulnerability read the article What is DOM based Cross-site Scripting vulnerability.

Advisory Timeline

04/09/2015 – First Contact
06/11/2015 – Second Contact
15/12/2015 – Advisory Released

Solution

The developer did not follow up / no solution is available.

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Onur Yilmaz while testing Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

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