Acidcat CMS URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Acidcat CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Certain input appended to the URL after admin/admin_colors.asp, admin/admin_config.asp, and admin/admin_cat_add.asp 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 requires that the victim uses a browser that does not URL-encode the request (e.g. Internet Explorer 6).
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 3.5.6. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Acidcat CMS 3.x
     
Solution   Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
     
CVE   CVE-2012-0933
     
References   http://packetstorm.foofus.com/1201-exploits/acidcat-xss.txt
     
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 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2012-01-23 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote