Multiple XSS in pragmaMx

[advisory () htbridge com]

Advisory ID: HTB23090
Product: pragmaMx
Vendor: pragmaMx Team
Vulnerable Version(s): 1.12.1 and probably prior
Tested Version: 1.12.1
Vendor Notification: 2 May 2012 
Vendor Patch: 4 May 2012 
Public Disclosure: 23 May 2012 
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CVE Reference: CVE-2012-2452
Solution Status: Fixed by Vendor
Risk Level: Medium 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab ( https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/ ) 

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Advisory Details:

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in pragmaMx, which can be exploited 
to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.


1) Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in pragmaMx: CVE-2012-2452

1.1 Input passed via a name of a GET parameter to modules.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the 
user.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in administrator's browser session in context of 
affected website.

The following PoC (Proof of Concept) demonstrates the vulnerability:

http://[host]/modules.php?name=Themetest&%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22XSS%22%29;%3C/script%3E

1.2 Input passed via the "img_url" GET parameter to /includes/wysiwyg/spaw/editor/plugins/imgpopup/img_popup.php is not 
properly sanitised before being returned to the user.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser session in context of affected 
website.

The following PoC (Proof of Concept) demonstrates the vulnerability:

http://[host]/includes/wysiwyg/spaw/editor/plugins/imgpopup/img_popup.php?img_url=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29;%3C/script%3E

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Solution:

Upgrade to pragmaMx 1.12.2

More Information:
http://www.pragmamx.org/Forum-topic-33554.html
http://www.pragmamx.org/News-pragmaMx-1.12-Servicepack2-item-706.html

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References:

[1] High-Tech Bridge Advisory HTB23090 - https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23090 - Multiple XSS in pragmaMx.
[2] pragmaMx - http://www.pragmamx.org/ - pragmaMx is a content management system written in PHP.
[3] Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) - http://cve.mitre.org/ - international in scope and free for public 
use, CVE® is a dictionary of publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures.

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Advisory is available on web page [1] in the References.