[MajorSecurity #13]Cabacos Web CMS<= 3.8 - XSS ---------------------------------------------- Software: Cabacos Web CMS Version: <=3.8.498 Type: Cross site scripting Date: June, 10th 2006 Vendor: IT-Direkt Page: http://www.cabacos-web-cms.de Credits: ---------------------------- Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz http://www.majorsecurity.de Original Advisory: ---------------------------- http://www.majorsecurity.de/advisory/major_rls13.txt Affected Products: ---------------------------- Cabacos Web CMS 3.8.498 and prior Description: ---------------------------- Cabacos Web CMS is a well known and commercial Content Management System. Requirements: ---------------------------- register_globals = On Vulnerability: ---------------------------- Input passed to the searchform input fields is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in context of an affected site. Solution: ---------------------------- Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised. You should work with "htmlspecialchars()" or "strip_tags()" php-function to ensure that html tags are not going to be executed. Example: <?php echo htmlspecialchars("<script"); ?> Set "register_globals" to "Off". Exploitation: --------------------------- Goto the searchform input fields and type in following line as searchword: <script>alert("MajorSecurity")</script>
