CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
66.4%
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# Exploit Title : SyndeoCMS <= 3.0.01 Persistent XSS
# Date : 29-03-2012
# Author : Ivano Binetti (http://ivanobinetti.com)
# Vendor site : http://www.syndeocms.org/
# Software link : http://sourceforge.net/projects/syndeocms
# Version : 3.0.01 and lower
# Tested on : Debian Squeeze (6.0)
# CVE : CVE-2012-1979
# Original Advisory: http://www.webapp-security.com/2012/03/syndeocms/
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Summary
1)Introduction
2)Description
3)Exploit
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1)Introduction
SyndeoCMS is a "Content Management System (CMS) for primary schools, which helps you manage and maintain your website. It can also
be a very usefull CMS for small companies or non profit organizations".
2)Description
SyndeoCMS 3.0.01 (and lower) is prone to a persistent XSS vulnerability due to an improper input sanitization of
"email" parameter, passed to server side logic (path: "starnet/index.php") via http POST method.
Exploiting this vulnerability an authenticated user - which is able to change his profile settings - could insert arbitrary
code in "Site email" field that will be executed when another admin or user clicks on that user'profile.
3)Exploit
Insert the following code in "Email address" field under
"starnet/index.php?option=configuration&suboption=users&modoption=edit_user&user_id=<user_id_number>":
[email protected]"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
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