Croogo CMS versions 1.2 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Posted on 09 March 2010
============================================================ Croogo CMS versions 1.2 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities ============================================================ Vulnerable Software: 1.2 and prior Release Date: 2010-03-06 Last Update: 2010-02-01 Critical: Low Impact: Session hijack Denial of service Code execution Solution Status: Webvuln has informed and submitted a patch to the vendor Croogo 1.2.1 has been released WebVuln Advisory: 1-009 BACKGROUND ======================= Croogo is a content management system gaining popularity rapidily in the CAKEPHP community. Its 'Contact' module allow the users to save the messages and due to lack of input sanitation is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks. DESCRIPTION ======================= The 'Contact' module allows their users to save the received messages to the database. The vulnerabilities are present because the fields 'title' and 'subject' are not sanitized at all. EXPLOIT / POC ======================= An attacker can exploit this vulnerability simply by sending the malicious code using the fields 'subject' or 'title' located in the contact form. WORKAROUND ======================= Upgrade to Croogo 1.2.1 or download the latest copy of 'contacts_controller.php' from Croogo's public repository # ~ - [ [ : Inj3ct0r : ] ]
