SNS Vulnerability

Pligg CMS Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Pligg CMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed to the "user" and "page" parameters in admin/admin_comments.php and admin/admin_links.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) Input passed to the "list" parameter in admin/admin_index.php (when "action" is set to "move" or "minimize") 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) Input passed to the "karma_username" POST parameter in module.php (when "module" is set to "karma" , "submit" is set to "Submit", and "karma_value" is set) is not properly sanitised in modules/karma/karma_main.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.
4) Input passed via the "list" parameter to admin/admin_index.php (when "id" and "top" are set and "action" is set to "move") is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
5) Input passed via the "display" parameter to admin/admin_index.php (when "id" is set and "action" is set to "minimize") is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
6) Input passed via the "enabled[]" POST parameter to admin/admin_users.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of vulnerabilities #4 through #6 requires "admin" privileges.
7) Input passed via the "msg_id" parameter to module.php (when "module" is set to "simple_messaging" and "view" is set to "delmsg", "reply", "viewsentmsg", or "viewmsg") is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
8) Input passed to the "edit" parameter in module.php (when "module" is set to "admin_language" and "mode" is set to "edit") 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.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.2.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Pligg CMS 1.x

Solution

Update to version 1.2.2.

CVE

CVE-2012-2937
CVE-2012-2936
CVE-2012-2436
CVE-2012-2435

References

Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-18/
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2012-19/
Pligg:
http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&
id=15
High-Tech Bridge SA:
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089

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
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	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 - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	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 - POST : possible version probing in data	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 - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data	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 - POST : javascript code found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data	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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	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 - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	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 - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	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
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	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 - POST : 'script' tag found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	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
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : javascript code found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious tag with event found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'embed' tag found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'location' javascript object found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : code allowing cookie access found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : 'script' tag found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'style' attribute found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'applet' tag found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'div' tag found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'img' attribute found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'meta' tag found in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'object' tag found in data	5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data	5.0.0
XSS - Prevention - POST : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in data	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-05-21

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote