n.runs AG
http://www.nruns.com/                              security at nruns.com
n.runs-SA-2007.004                                           14-Mar-2007
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Vendor:                Mayflower GmbH, http://www.mayflower.de
Affected Products:     PHProjekt 5.2.0
Vulnerability:         Cross Site Scripting and Filter Evasion
Risk:                  HIGH

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Vendor communication:

  2006/12/31        initial notification of Mayflower
  2007/01/02        Mayflower Response
  2007/01/02        PGP keys exchange
  2007/01/02        PoCs sent to Mayflower
  2007/01/11        Mayflower confirmed the bugs
  2007/01/30        Mayflower fixed the bugs and sends RC1
  2007/01/30        n.runs informs Mayflower about a persisting XSS 
                    vulnerability
  2007/02/02        Mayflower confirmed the bug
  2007/02/08        Mayflower fixed the bugs and sends RC2   
  2007/02/12        n.runs informs Mayflower about a persisting XSS
                    vulnerability
  2007/02/15        Mayflower confirmed the bug
  2007/02/20        Mayflower fixed the bug and sends RC3
  2007/02/21        n.runs verifies RC3 and reported a possible flaw
                    within the new XSS protection library
  2007/03/14        PHProjekt 5.2.1 available
  2007/03/14        Coordinated disclosure

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Overview:
Quoting http://www.phprojekt.com/features.php?&newlang=eng 
"PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group 
activities and to share informations and document via the web.
Components of PHProjekt: Group calendar, project management, time card 
system, file management, contact manager, mail client and many other 
modules.
PHProjekt supports many protocols like ldap, xml/soap and webdav and 
is available for 38 languages and 9 databases."



Description:
In detail, the following flaws were determined during a quick source 
code review for the modules Projects, Contacts, Helpdesk, Notes, Search
and Mail. 
During the validation the php.ini setting "magic_quotes_gpc" was 
deactivated.

Although PHProjekt is using a Cross Site Scripting Filter, it is 
possible to circumvent it.
Affected modules are
    - Projects
    - Contacts
    - Helpdesk
    - Notes
    - Search
    - Mail
The Search module affects only Gecko engine driven Browsers.
      
Finally, the Cross Site Scripting vulnerability also affects the summary 
page, which is PHProjekt's index page.


Remarks
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There may be other modules which are affected, but they have not been 
subject to review at this point. 



Solution:
The vulnerabilities were reported on Dec 31 2006 and an update has 
been released on Mar 14 2007.
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Credit: 
Bugs found by Alexios Fakos of n.runs AG. 
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References: 
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_phprojekt_xss_and_filter_evasion.php
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