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Maxthon3 about:history XCS Trusted Zone Code Execution

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Disclosed
Nov 26, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

Cross Context Scripting (XCS) is possible in the Maxthon about:history page.
Injection in such privileged/trusted browser zone can be used to modify
configuration settings and execute arbitrary commands.

Please note this module only works against specific versions of XCS. Currently,
we've only successfully tested on Maxthon 3.1.7 build 600 up to 3.2.2 build 1000.

Authors

Roberto Suggi Liverani
sinn3r [email protected]
juan vazquez [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/browser/maxthon_history_xcs
    msf exploit(maxthon_history_xcs) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(maxthon_history_xcs) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(maxthon_history_xcs) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(maxthon_history_xcs) > exploit
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