Webex Sales CenterApplication · Cisco
CVE-2013-6959
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedOpen redirect vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Sales Center allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors, aka Bug ID CSCul25557.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceOpen redirect vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Sales Center where the application accepts user-controlled input in redirect parameters without proper validation, allowing attackers to craft malicious URLs that appear to originate from the trusted Cisco domain but actually redirect users to arbitrary external websites for phishing purposes.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Webex Sales CenterApplication
all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Cisco WebEx Sales Center is installedInspect installed applications or check for webex-related directories and services on the system. Look for Sales Center components via system inventory tools or package managers.Affected if Cisco WebEx Sales Center is present on the system
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Identify URL redirect functionalityReview the application's URL structure and look for parameters that control navigation or redirection, such as parameters containing 'url', 'redirect', 'next', 'dest', or 'target'. Examine HTTP responses for Location headers.Affected if The application uses redirect parameters in its URLs
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Test redirect parameters for open redirect vulnerabilityModify redirect-related parameters in URLs to point to an external domain (e.g., parameter value set to 'https://attacker.com'). Submit the crafted URL and observe whether the application redirects to the arbitrary external site.Affected if The application redirects to user-controlled external domains without validation
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Verify redirect validation existsReview server-side code or configuration for whitelist-based validation logic that restricts redirect targets to approved domains or relative paths only.Affected if No server-side validation restricts redirects to internal or approved domains only
A user is affected if Cisco WebEx Sales Center is installed and the application permits unrestricted external redirects through URL parameters.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement strict input validation and whitelist-based redirection logic - only allow redirects to relative paths or explicitly approved external domains; validate all redirect parameters server-side before issuing the redirect response.
Fix this in Webex Sales Center
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2013-6959 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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