Plesk Control Panel <= 8.0.0 XSS vulnerability

Product: Plesk control panel

Version: <= 8.0.0

Vendor: SWSoft Inc.

URL: http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/plesk/

VULNERABILITY CLASS: XSS

[Product Description]

Plesk is comprehensive server management software developed specifically for the Hosting Service Industry with the assistance of Web hosting professionals.

[Summary]

An attacker can exploit it by compromising the values of the parameter
"file" in filemanager.php.

This can be used to take advantage of the trust between a client and server
allowing the malicious user to execute malicious JavaScript on
the client's machine when client is logged into control panel.

[Exploit]

https://target.xxx:8443/filemanager/filemanager.php?cmd=chdir&amp;file=&lt;script&gt;alert&#40;&#41;;&lt;/script&gt;

[Credits]

INVENT