Symphony CMS Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Mesut Timur has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Symphony CMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "profile" parameter to the URL is not properly sanitised in extensions/profiledevkit/content/content.profile.php 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 "filter" parameter to symphony/publish/images is not properly sanitised in symphony/lib/core/class.symphony.php 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.
3) Input passed via the "filter" parameter to symphony/publish/comments is not properly sanitised in symphony/content/content.publish.php before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Note: This vulnerability can further be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks via SQL error messages.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires "Author" privileges.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.2.3. Prior versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Symphony CMS 2.x
     
Solution   Update to version 2.2.4 or later.
     
CVE   CVE-2011-4341
CVE-2011-4340
     
References   Symphony:
http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/
https://github.com/symphonycms/symphony-2/commit/476e4926e2773588eab10dd3036f27e1411521b5
Mavituna Security (NS-11-008):
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/
     
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 - 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found 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
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found 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 - 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
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
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 - 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
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
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 - 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
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
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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found 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
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
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
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing 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 
2011-11-03 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote