+-----------------------------------------+ | RST/GHC >> Coppermine << ADVISORY | | Product: Coppermine Photo Gallery | | Version: 1.3.x | | URL: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/ | +-----------------------------------------+ [Product Description] "Coppermine Photo Gallery is a picture gallery script. Users can upload pictures with a web browser (thumbnails are created on the fly), rate pictures, add comments and send e-cards. The admins can manage the galleries and batch add pictures that have been uploaded on the server by FTP. Support for multimedia files has been added recently" (from official site description). [Summary] The lack of sanitizing of user defined variables may result in undesirable consequences such as IP spoofing or XSS attack. [Details] Generally users of Coppermine Gallery can post comments. Remote address & x-forwarded-for variables are logged for admin's eyes. X-Forwarded-for variable does not pass throu any filtration before logging into database. User can define/redefine this variable. Vulnerable script: include/init.inc.php ---[code]--- if (isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) { $hdr_ip = stripslashes($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']); } else { $hdr_ip = $raw_ip; } ---[/code]--- User with access to comments module can spoof x-forwarded-for variable and realize XSS attack (as example to get admin's cookie).
