Pligg CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Pligg CMS, where some have an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input appended to the URL 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) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors. No further information is currently available.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.1.4.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Pligg CMS 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.1.4.
     
CVE   CVE-2011-5023
     
References   Pligg CMS:
http://forums.pligg.com/current-version/23041-pligg-content-management-system-1-1-4-a.html
Sitewatch:
https://sitewat.ch/en/Advisories/6
     
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 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-03-23 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote