isb05-sql.txt
Posted on 18 July 2007
Insanely simple blog version 0.5 and below http://sourceforge.net/projects/insanelysimple2 ISB contains multple vulnerabilities including both XSS, and SQL injection. First off, the search action fails to strip user content for html allowing a user to input tags. Next, anonymous blog entries can contain javascript allowing script execution. How? Well, tags are stripped, and there is As for the sql injection portion, several GET variables allow for the injection of SQL queries. First of which is the current_subsection variable. The following proof of concepts are provided http://www.example.net/index.php?current_subsection=2 or 1=1/* ^^ dumps all table data. http://www.example.net/index.php?current_subsection=2%20union%20all%20select blah from content/* The following bits of code work on the blog. <B onmousemver="javascript:alert('lol')">Pizza pie</B> <OL onmouseover="alert('lol')">I like it</OL> The fix for now is to filter blog entries with either a regex or the htmlspecialchars() function. The sql injection can be prevented by making sure the variables are numeric.
