Acuity CMS Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Acuity CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed to the "strSearchKeywords" parameter in browse.asp, to the "page" parameter in admin/pages/add_page.asp, and to the "UserName" parameter in admin/login.asp isn't 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 to the "page" parameter in article.asp 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 reported in version 2.6.2 (ASP). Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Acuity CMS 2.x
     
Solution   Acunity CMS is no longer supported by its vendor. Use another product instead.
     
CVE  
     
References   r0t:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/12/acuity-cms-26x-asp-xss-vuln.html
High-Tech Bridge SA (HTB22352):
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_acuity_cms.html
Aung Khant
yehg:
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/%5Bacuity_cms
2.6.x_(asp)%5D_xss
     
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 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2005-12-19 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote