SNS Vulnerability

phpList Multiple Vulnerabilities

Description

Secunia Research has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in phpList, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion and SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and script insertion attacks.
1) Input passed via the "usercheck" parameter to admin/index.php (when "page" is set to "usercheck") 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 "strCharSet" parameter to admin/pagetop.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.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
3) Input passed via the "description" parameter when adding or editing a subscriber list description is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will execute in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires permissions to manage lists.
4) Input passed via the "login" parameter to admin/index.php is not properly sanitised in admin/eventlog.php before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will execute in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
5) Input passed via the "findby" parameter to admin/index.php (when "page" is set to "users") is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires permissions to manage users.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.10.14. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
phplist 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.10.17.

CVE

References

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-63/
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-64/
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-65/
phpList:
http://www.phplist.com/?lid=555
http://www.phplist.com/?lid=556

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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	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 - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement 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 - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0
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

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2011-09-22

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote