Acolyte CMS 1.5 / 6.3 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

`Title:  
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Acolyte CMS v1.5 and v6.3 - SQL Injection Vulnerabilities  
  
  
Date:  
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2012-01-25  
  
  
References:  
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=397  
  
  
VL-ID:  
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397  
  
  
Abstract:  
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A Vulnerability Laboratory researcher discovered a critical (remote) SQL Injection and a persistent XSS on the Acolyte CMS v1.5.3 and v1.6.3.  
  
  
  
Report-Timeline:  
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2012-01-25: Public or Non-Public Disclosure  
  
  
Status:  
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Published  
  
  
Exploitation-Technique:  
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Remote  
  
  
Severity:  
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High  
  
  
Details:  
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1.1  
A SQL Injection vulnerability is detected on the powered by Acolyte v1.5 v6.3 CMS.  
The vulnerability allows an remote attacker to execute sql commands via remote sql injection attack.  
The bug is located on the news_comments & plugin_forum module of the content management system.   
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows remote attacker to compromise the application & dbms.  
  
  
Vulnerable Module(s): (v1.5.3)  
[+] ?c=plugin&plugin=forums  
[+] ?c=news_comments  
  
Vulnerable Module(s): (v1.6.3)  
[+] ?c=news_comments  
[+] ?c=forum_post  
  
  
1.2  
A persistent input validation vulnerability is detected on the powered by Acolyte v1.5 v6.3 CMS.  
The vulnerability allows an remote attacker to hijack customer sessions via application side attack.  
Successful exploitation with required user inter action allows an attacker to manipulate the web context   
requests of the vulnerable application module.  
  
  
Vulnerable Module(s): (v1.6.3 & v1.5.3)  
[+] ?c=plugin&plugin=forums  
  
  
Proof of Concept:  
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The vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attacker. For demonstration or reproduce ...  
  
1.1  
  
v1.5.3  
?c=plugin&plugin=forums&2=topics&s=[vuln]  
?c=plugin&plugin=forums&2=post&s=3&t=[vuln]  
?c=news_comments&cid=[vuln]  
  
v1.6.3  
?c=forum_post&s=3&t=[vuln]  
?c=forum_post&s=[vuln]  
?c=news_comments&cid=[vuln]  
  
  
1.2  
?c=plugin&plugin=forums&2=search  
<script>alert(vulnerability-lab)</script>  
  
  
Risk:  
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1.1  
The security risk of the sql injection vulnerabilities are estimated as high(+).  
  
1.2  
The security risk of the persistent input validation vulnerability is estimated as medium(+).  
  
  
Credits:  
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Vulnerability Laboratory Researcher - snup ([email protected])  
  
  
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