[Positive Technologies SA:2009-14] BLOG CMS Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
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(PT-2009-14) Positive Technologies Security Advisory
BLOG:CMS Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
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---[ Affected Software ]
BLOG CMS
Versions 4.x prior to 4.2.0
Product Link:
http://www.blogcms.com
---[ Severity Rating ]
Severity: Medium
Impact: Cross-Site Scripting
Attack Vector: Remote
CVSS v2:
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
CVE: not assigned
---[ Software Description ]
BLOG CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as
a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage
and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and
their associated images).
---[ Vulnerability Description ]
Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in BLOG CMS.
User input passed to certain parameter is not properly sanitized. This can be
exploited to inject malicious code and allows to execute arbitrary HTML and
script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Vulnerability details are not disclosed.
Malicious users may inject JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML or Flash into a
vulnerable application to fool users in order to gather data from their
machines. An attacker can steal the session cookie and take over the account
impersonating the user. It is also possible to modify page content presented to
the user.
--[ Solution ]
Update to latest version.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/blogcms/blogcms.4.2.1.c.7z
--[ Disclosure Timeline ]
03/03/2009 - Vendor is notified
03/03/2009 - Vendor response
03/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
03/03/2009 - Vendor has informed that vulnerability is already corrected in the
new version
03/13/2009 - Public disclosure
---[ Credits ]
This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies
Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.
---[ References ]
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-14
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies
Research Team:
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
---[ About Positive Technologies ]
Positive Technologies www.ptsecurity.com is among the key players in the IT
security market in Russia.
The principal activities of the company include the development of integrated
tools for information security monitoring (MaxPatrol); providing IT security
consulting services and technical support; the development of the Securitylab
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African Republic, Thailand, Turkey and USA.
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