SNS Vulnerability

Piwigo "page" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

Steffen RÃ¶semann has reported a vulnerability in Piwigo, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "page" GET parameter to admin.php (when "page" is prefixed with "plugin-AdminTools") 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 reported in versions prior to 2.7.4.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Piwigo 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.7.4.

CVE

CVE-2015-2034

References

Piwigo:
http://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25179
http://piwigo.org/releases/2.7.4
Steffen RÃ¶semann:
http://sroesemann.blogspot.de/2015/02/report-for-advisory-sroeadv-2015-06.html

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
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

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2015-02-18

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote