SNS Vulnerability

eSyndiCat Directory Software Pro Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in eSyndiCat Directory Software Pro, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "title" POST parameter to suggest-category.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.
This vulnerability is reported in version 2.3. Other versions may also be affected.
2) Input passed via the "title" POST parameter to suggest-listing.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.
This vulnerability is reported in version 2.3 and 2.3.0.5. Other versions may also be affected.
Successful exploitation of vulnerabilities #1 and #2 requires that the "KCaptcha" plugin is disabled.
3) Input passed to the "id" parameter in admin/controller.php (when "file" is set to "admins" or "blocks" and "edit" is set to "do") 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.
4) Input passed to the "id" parameter in admin/controller.php (when "plugin" is set to "articles" and "do" is set to "edit") 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.
5) Input passed to the "id" parameter in admin/controller.php (when "file" is set to "suggest-category") 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.
6) Input passed to the "sort" parameter in admin/controller.php (when "file" is set to "search" and "action" is set to "get") 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 #3 through #6 are reported in version 2.3.0.5. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
eSyndiCat Directory Software Pro 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.3.0.5, which fixes vulnerability #1. Filter malicious characters or character sequences via a proxy.

CVE

CVE-2010-4504

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/107324/esyndicatpro-xss.txt

Vulnerability Manager Detection

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 - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	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 - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	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 - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	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 - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	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
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2010-12-06

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote