PHP Jobsite 1.36 Cross Site Scripting

`Title:  
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PHP Jobsite v1.36 - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities  
  
  
Date:  
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2012-06-17  
  
  
References:  
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=616  
  
  
VL-ID:  
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616  
  
  
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:  
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2.3  
  
  
Introduction:  
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PHP-Jobsite v1.36 Content Management System. Recruitment software made Easy.   
  
PHP-Jobsite - Price US - $299  
  
Software Overview:  
- Run your own job software website or integrated into your corporate site  
- control the software from everywhere you are using a browser and internet connection use multilingual   
options to display the language of your clients/users with some HTML and CSS knowledge you can change the   
template and have unique look and feel for clients/users  
- Planning/Membership options - create plans for employer recruitment (jobs to post, featured jobs to post,   
resumes to contact), create free plans for limited periods or allow unlimited access (free site)  
- Ecommerce - process Credit Card payments automatically with integrated payment gateways (Paypal, 2checkout,   
authorize.net, worldpay...etc. display your jobs on other sites with Advanced Cross Networking - RSS Feed, js or iframe  
  
(Copy of the Vendor Homepage: http://www.scriptdemo.com/details/phpjobsite )  
  
  
Abstract:  
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The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team discovered multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in the PHP Jobsite v1.36 Script.  
  
  
Report-Timeline:  
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2012-06-17: Public or Non-Public Disclosure  
  
  
Status:  
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Published  
  
  
Exploitation-Technique:  
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Remote  
  
  
Severity:  
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Medium  
  
  
Details:  
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Multiple non persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities are detected in the PHP Recruitment software Jobsite v1.36.  
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to hijack website customer, moderator or admin sessions with high required   
user inter action or local low privileged user account. The vulnerabilities are located in the Login and Change Skin module   
with the bound vulnerable ref & sk parameters.Successful exploitation can result in account steal, phishing & client-side content   
request manipulation.  
  
  
Vulnerable Module(s):   
[+] Login  
[+] Change Skin  
  
Vulnerable Paramater(s):   
[+] ref  
[+] sk  
  
  
Proof of Concept:  
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The vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attackers without privileged user account & with medium or high  
required user inter action. For demonstration or reproduce ...  
  
  
[*] http://127.0.0.1:8080/script/error_login.php?auth_sess=b315a743d9db4abd26d7b060b57fb082&ref=[CROSS SITE SCRIPTING]  
[*] http://127.0.0.1:8080/script/index.php??sk=[CROSS SITE SCRIPTING]  
  
  
[*]   
http://127.0.0.1:8080/php-jobsite/demo/error_login.php?auth_sess=b315a743d9db4abd26d7b060b57fb082&ref="><img   
src=http://127.0.0.1:8080/images/200911/11/i8du12ievi9fh1a9rm-owned-headonfire.jpg onload=alert("VL"); />  
  
[*]   
http://127.0.0.1:8080/php-jobsite/demo/?sk="><img src=http://www.izipik.com/images/200911/11/i8du12ievi9fh1a9rm-  
owned-headonfire.jpg onload=alert("VL"); />  
  
  
Risk:  
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The security risk of the cross site scripting vulnerabilities are estiamted as medium(-).  
  
  
Credits:  
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Chokri Ben Achour ([email protected])   
  
  
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