Insanely simple blog - Multiple vulnerabilities
Insanely simple blog version 0.5 and below
http://sourceforge.net/projects/insanelysimple2
ISB contains multple vulnerabilities including both XSS, and SQL injection.
First off, the search action fails to strip user content for html allowing a
user to input tags. Next, anonymous blog entries can contain javascript
allowing script execution. How? Well, tags are stripped, and there is
As for the sql injection portion, several GET variables allow for the injection
of SQL queries.
First of which is the current_subsection variable.
The following proof of concepts are provided
http://www.example.net/index.php?current_subsection=2 or 1=1/*
^^ dumps all table data.
http://www.example.net/index.php?current_subsection=2%20union%20all%20select
blah from content/*
The following bits of code work on the blog.
<B onmousemver="javascript:alert('lol')">Pizza pie</B>
<OL onmouseover="alert('lol')">I like it</OL>
The fix for now is to filter blog entries with either a regex or the
htmlspecialchars() function. The sql injection can be prevented by making sure
the variables are numeric.