SNS Vulnerability

LimeSurvey Script Insertion and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in LimeSurvey, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "full_name" parameter to admin/admin.php (when "action" is set to "moduser") is not properly sanitised in admin/userrighthandling.php before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed.
2) Input passed via the "id" parameter to admin/admin.php (when "action" is set to "browse") is not properly sanitised in admin/browse.php 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 the "Create survey" permission or the "View/read Responses" permission for a survey.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.91+ Build 12416. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
LimeSurvey 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.91+ Build 120224.

CVE

References

http://www.limesurvey.org/en/stable-release
http://freecode.com/projects/limesurvey/releases/342070

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

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-02-29

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote