PR07-18: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) / HTML injection on Webbler CMS admin login page (1)

This advisory has been published following consultation with UK CPNI (formerly known as NISCC) 

Date Found: 14th June 2007


Successfully tested on: Webbler CMS version 3.1.3. Earlier versions are possibly affected as well.

Note: the version number is usually included within 'meta' HTML tags and 'X-Powered-By' HTTP response headers. i.e.:

<meta name="generator" content="webbler 3.1.3 -http://tincan.co.uk/webbler" />

X-Powered-By: webbler version 3.1.3 


Description:

Webbler CMS is vulnerable to XSS within the "/uploader/index.php" server-side script and 'page' parameter.

No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability.


Consequences:

An attacker may be able to cause execution of malicious scripting code in the browser of a 
user who clicks on a link to a site generated/managed by Webbler CMS. HTML tags can also be injected.

This type of attack can result in non-persistent defacement of the target site, or the redirection of confidential information to unauthorised third parties.

  
XSS Proof of concept (PoC) URL:

http://target-domain.com/uploader/?page=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script> 


HTML injection PoC URL:

http://target-domain.com/uploader/?page=</title><h1>html%20injection%20test</h1> 

 
Successfully tested on:

Server environment:

Webbler CMS 3.1.3
PHP 5.1.6
Apache web server (unknown version)


Client environment:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11


Severity: Medium/High


Author: Adrian Pastor of ProCheckUp [adrian.pastor [at] procheckup.com]

ProCheckUp thanks Tincan for fixing this vulnerability so promptly.


References:

http://tincan.co.uk/webbler
http://tincan.co.uk/?lid=1975
http://www.procheckup.com/Vulner_2007.php


Fix:

This issue has been fixed on version version 3.1.6.


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