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Re: Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Zen Cart 1.3.5



Full Disclosure

Armorize Technologies Security Advisory

Advisory No:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0003

Status:
Full

Date:
2006/9/27

Summary:
Armorize-ADV-2006-0003 discloses multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities 
that are found in Zen Cart, which is a PHP e-commerce shopping program and is 
Built on a foundation of OScommerce GPL code. It provides an easy-to-setup and 
run online store.

Affected Software:
Zen Cart 1.3.5
Zen Cart 1.3.2

Vulnerability Description:
Cross-Site Scripting

Analysis/Impact:
Privacy leakages from the client-side may lead to session hijacking, identity 
theft and information theft.

Detection/Exploit(full):
http://www.example.com/[PATH]/login.php
POST variables admin_name and admin_pass are vulnerable.
http://www.example.com/[PATH]/password_forgotten.php
POST variable admin_email is vulnerable.

Protection/Solution:
1. Escape every questionable URI and HTML script.
2. Remove prohibited user input.

Disclosure Timeline:
2006/09/27 Published partial advisory; Notified vendor
2006/09/29 Received request from Ian Wilson of Zen Cart for more details
2006/10/02 Zen Cart released official patch for this vulnerability
2006/10/04 Published full advisory
2006/10/14 Full disclosure at SecurityFocus mailing list

Credit: Security Team at Armorize Technologies, Inc. (security@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


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Link to this Armorize advisory
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