Zenphoto 1.4.3.2 Cross Site Scripting

2012-10-03 / 2012-10-12
Credit: Scott Herbert
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: CVE-2012-4519
CWE: CWE-79


CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: None

------------------------- Affected products: ------------------------- Product : Zenphoto 1.4.3.2 (and maybe older) fixed in 1.4.3.3 Affected function: printPublishIconLink ---------- Details: ---------- The file admin-news-articles.php calls the function printPublishIconLink which generates HTML from data stored in the $_GET super global, this can be used to generate a XSS attack or more seriously, as a admin user need to be logged in to access the page admin-news-articles.php, a cookie stealing script. Example code: http://127.0.0.1/zenphoto/zp-core/zp-extensions/zenpage/admin-news-articles. php?date=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27Cookie%20sealing%20Javascript%27%29;%3 C/script%3E%3C> -------------------- Suggested fix: -------------------- Sanitize the $_GET super global on lines 1637 through 1641 in zenpage-admin-functions.php file ------------ Timeline: ------------ 12-Sept-2012 Zenphoto and UK-CERT informed 18-Sept-2012 Zenphoto confirmed and fixed (see http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/changeset/10836). 1-Oct-2012 Zenphoto 1.4.3.3 released fixing hole. -- Scott Herbert Cert Web Apps (Open) http://blog.scott-herbert.com/ Twitter @Scott_Herbert

References:

http://blog.scott-herbert.com/


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