Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0 XSS Attack Vulnerability

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        netVigilance Security Advisory #34

Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0 XSS Attack Vulnerability
Description:
Utopia News Pro is a powerful and scalable news management system for any web site. News Pro, written in PHP and backed 
by the renowned MySQL database system, Utopia Software's News Pro is an ideal software solution for your site. Support 
for multiple users and multiple user levels. Also includes avatar and comments support. All settings can be changed in 
the web-accessible control panel.

Successful exploitation requires that attacker entered 6 times the wrong password for the existing username.
Advisory URL: 
http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0034

External References: 
Mitre CVE:  CVE-2007-3129
NVD NIST: CVE-2007-3129
OSVDB: 34165

Summary: 
Utopia News Pro is a powerful and scalable news management system for any web site.
Security problem in the product allows attackers to conduct XSS attacks.

Release Date:
06/17/2007
 
Severity:
Risk: Medium
 
CVSS Metrics:
Access Vector: Remote
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not-required
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial 
Impact Bias: Normal
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
 
Target Distribution on Internet: Low
 
Exploitability: Functional Exploit
Remediation Level: Workaround
Report Confidence: Uncorroborated
 
Vulnerability Impact: Attack
Host Impact: XSS Attack

SecureScout Testcase ID:
TC 17964

Vulnerable Systems:
Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0

Vulnerability Type:
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) to force a web-site to display malicious contents to the target, by sending a specially 
crafted request to the web-site. The vulnerable web-site is not the target of attack but is used as a tool for the 
hacker in the attack of the victim.

Vendor:
Utopia Software

Vendor Status: 
The Vendor has been notified several times on many different email addresses last on 6 June 2007. The Vendor has not 
responded. There is no official fix at the release of this Security Advisory.

Workaround: 
Absent

Example: 
The attacker must commit 6 unsuccessful login attempts with 'admin' username. So he will be able to see CAPTCHA. 
REQUEST:
http://[TARGET]/[UTOPIA NEWS PRO-DIRECTORY]/login.php?username=admin
&password=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookies)%3C/script%3E

REPLY:
will execute <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

Credits: 
Jesper Jurcenoks
Co-founder netVigilance, Inc
www.netvigilance.com