FlatNuke Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


Description   Canberk Bolat has discovered a vulnerability in FlatNuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via arbitrary GET parameters to /sections/none_Admin/none_plugins/none_HelloWorld_plugin/section.php 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 vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.1.2. Prior versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
FlatNuke 3.x
     
Solution   Update to version 3.1.3.
     
CVE  
     
References   FlatNuke:
http://flatnuke.netsons.org/index.php?action=viewnews&
news=1387985445
Mavituna Security (NS-14-003):
https://www.netsparker.com/critical-xss-vulnerabilities-in-flatnuke/
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
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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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2014-02-04 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote