TomatoCMS Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

2010.05.26
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CWE: CWE-79


CVSS Base Score: 2.1/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: High
Authentication: Single time
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: None

====================================================================== Secunia Research 10/05/2010 - TomatoCMS Script Insertion Vulnerabilities - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3 Description of Vulnerability.........................................4 Solution.............................................................5 Time Table...........................................................6 Credits..............................................................7 References...........................................................8 About Secunia........................................................9 Verification........................................................10 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * TomatoCMS version 2.0.4. NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Less critical Impact: Cross Site Scripting Where: From remote ====================================================================== 3) Vendor's Description of Software "TomatoCMS is an impressive, powerful Content Management System. It's free and open source licensed under GNU GPL." Product Link: http://tomatocms.com/ ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered three vulnerabilities in TomatoCMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks. Input passed via the "title", "subTitle", and "author" parameters to index.php/admin/news/article/add is not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious data is being viewed. Successful exploitation requires "Add new article" permissions. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Updated to version 2.0.5. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 09/04/2010 - Vendor notified. 11/04/2010 - Vendor response. 04/05/2010 - Vendor releases fixed version. 12/05/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has not currently assigned a CVE identifier for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security. http://secunia.com/advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below to see currently vacant positions: http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/ Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories: http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-59/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================

References:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/58471
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511272/100/0/threaded
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-59/
http://secunia.com/advisories/39320
http://osvdb.org/64550
http://holisticinfosec.org/content/view/141/45/


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