Croogo CMS 1.2 Cross Site Scripting

Vulnerable Software: 1.2 and prior
Release Date: 2010-02-31
Last Update: 2010-02-01
Critical: Low
Impact: Session hijack
Denial of service
Code execution

Solution Status: Webvuln has informed and submitted a patch to the vendor
Croogo 1.2.1 has been released
Websec Advisory: ws10-07

BACKGROUND
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Croogo is a content management system gaining popularity rapidily in the CAKEPHP community. Its ‘Contact’ module allow the users to save the
messages and due to lack of input sanitation is vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks.

DESCRIPTION
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The ‘Contact’ module allows their users to save the received messages to the database. The vulnerabilities are present because the fields ‘title’ and
‘subject’ are not sanitized at all.

EXPLOIT / POC
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An attacker can exploit this vulnerability simply by sending the malicious code using the fields ‘subject’ or ‘title’ located in the contact form.

WORKAROUND
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Upgrade to Croogo 1.2.1 or download the latest copy of ‘contacts_controller.php’ on Croogo’s public repository

DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
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2009/01/15 - Vulnerability discovered
2009/01/20 - Vendor contacted
2009/01/30 - Patch submitted to Croogo’s public source code repositories
2010/01/31 - Patch merged with main branch
2009/03/06 - Vulnerability disclosed

REFERENCES
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Croogo CMS - http://www.croogo.org/

WebVuln - http://www.webvuln.com