CMS Made Simple Multiple Vulnerabilities


Description   Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in CMS Made Simple, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks and disclose sensitive information.
1) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing proper validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. change group permissions or change the administrative password by tricking a logged in administrative user into visiting a malicious web site.
2) Input passed via the "default_cms_lang" parameter to various scripts e.g. admin/addbookmark.php, admin/addcontent.php, or admin/adminlog.php is not properly verified before being used to include files in lib/translation.functions.php. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal sequences and URL-encoded NULL bytes.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.8. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
CMS Made Simple 1.x
     
Solution   Update to version 1.10.1.
     
CVE   CVE-2010-3884
CVE-2010-3883
CVE-2010-3882
CVE-2010-2797
     
References   CMS Made Simple:
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2010/07/3/announcing-cms-made-simple-1-8-1-mankara/
Bkis:
http://security.bkis.com/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-cms-made-simple/
John Leitch:
http://cross-site-scripting.blogspot.com/2010/07/cms-made-simple-18-local-file-inclusion.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../
3.2.0
Directory traversal using ..\..
3.2.0
Directory traversal
3.2.0
Directory traversal backward root folder
3.2.0
Escaped NULL char in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2010-06-03 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote