SNS Vulnerability

Piwigo Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Description

High-Tech Bridge SA has discovered some vulnerabilities in Piwigo, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "section" parameter (when "page" is set to "configuration"), the "installstatus" (when "page" is set to "languages_new"), and the "theme" parameter (when "page" is set to "theme") to admin.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.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.3.3. Prior versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Piwigo 2.x

Solution

Update to version 2.3.4.

CVE

CVE-2012-2209
CVE-2012-2208

References

High-Tech Bridge SA:
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23085
http://piwigo.org/bugs/view.php?id=2607
Piwigo:
http://piwigo.org/releases/2.3.4
http://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19173

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
Misc : Directory traversal - parameter starting with ../	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
Directory traversal using ..\..	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
Directory traversal	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
Directory traversal backward root folder	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

2012-04-25

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote