MODx Clickjacking and Cross-Site Scripting Multiple Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in MODx, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct clickjacking and cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Input passed via the "editor" and "type" GET parameters to /manager/media/browser/mcpuk/browser.php 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) Certain input passed to /assets/snippets/jot/jot.class.inc.php 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.
3) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests via iframes without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to perform certain unspecified actions by tricking a user into e.g. clicking a specially crafted link via clickjacking.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.0.15.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
MODx 1.x
     
Solution   Update to versions 1.0.15.
     
CVE  
     
References   MODx:
http://forums.modx.com/thread/94952/multiple-vulnerabilities-xss-remote-command-injection
https://github.com/modxcms/evolution/blob/develop/install/changelog.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 
2014-11-19 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote