SNS Vulnerability

AContent Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

High-Tech Bridge has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in AContent, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "pathext", "popup", "framed", and "file" parameters to file_manager/preview_top.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.
2) Input passed via the "id" parameter to user/user_password.php and the "field" parameter to course_category/index_inline_editor_submit.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.2. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
AContent 1.x

Solution

Apply vendor patch via built-in program updater.

CVE

CVE-2012-5169
CVE-2012-5167

References

High-Tech Bridge:
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23117

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 - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement 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 - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Evasion attempt with CAST and EXEC statements	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-10-18

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote