SNS Vulnerability

Exponent CMS Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Mavituna Security has discovered two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "tag" parameter to index.php (when "action" is set to "showall_by_tags") is not properly sanitised in the "showall_by_tags()" function in framework/core/controllers/expController.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 "section" parameter to index.php is not properly sanitised in the "getSection()" function in framework/core/subsystems/expRouter.php before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.0.5. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Exponent CMS 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.0.6.

CVE

References

Mavituna Security:
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/xss-and-blind-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-exponentcms/
Exponent CMS:
http://exponentcms.org/news/-happy-hyperbole-v2-0-6-is-in-full-bloom

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
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 - 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 - 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 - 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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	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
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 - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	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
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
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-04-24

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote