MODx Revolution Cross-Site Scripting and Command Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been reported in MODx, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and compromise a vulnerable system.
1) The vulnerability is caused due to a bundled vulnerable version of phpThumb().
For more information:
SA39556
2) Input passed via the "a" GET parameter to the Manager interface is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.2.11.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
MODx 2.x
     
Solution   Update to version 2.2.12.
     
CVE   CVE-2014-2080
CVE-2010-1598
     
References   http://modx.com/blog/2014/01/21/revolution-2.2.11%E2%80%94security-fixes-and-prevent-change-loss/
http://modx.com/blog/2014/02/19/modx-revolution-2.2.12-navigation-nag-and-phpthumb-fixed/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
High 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2014-02-27 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote