utopia-xss.txt

`netVigilance Security Advisory #34  
Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0 XSS Attack Vulnerability  
Description:  
Utopia News Pro is a powerful and scalable news management system for any web site. News Pro, written in PHP and backed by the renowned MySQL database  
system, Utopia Software's News Pro is an ideal software solution for your site. Support for multiple users and multiple user levels. Also includes avatar  
and comments support. All settings can be changed in the web-accessible control panel.  
Successful exploitation requires that attacker entered 6 times the wrong password for the existing username.  
Advisory URL:   
http://www.netvigilance.com/advisory0034  
External References:   
Mitre CVE: CVE-2007-3129  
NVD NIST: CVE-2007-3129  
OSVDB: 34165  
Summary:   
Utopia News Pro is a powerful and scalable news management system for any web site.  
Security problem in the product allows attackers to conduct XSS attacks.  
Release Date:  
06/17/2007  
  
Severity:  
Risk: Medium  
  
CVSS Metrics:  
Access Vector: Remote  
Access Complexity: High  
Authentication: Not-required  
Confidentiality Impact: Partial  
Integrity Impact: Partial  
Availability Impact: Partial   
Impact Bias: Normal  
CVSS Base Score: 5.6  
  
Target Distribution on Internet: Low  
  
Exploitability: Functional Exploit  
Remediation Level: Workaround  
Report Confidence: Uncorroborated  
  
Vulnerability Impact: Attack  
Host Impact: XSS Attack  
SecureScout Testcase ID:  
TC 17964  
Vulnerable Systems:  
Utopia News Pro version 1.4.0  
Vulnerability Type:  
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) to force a web-site to display malicious contents to the target, by sending a specially crafted request to the web-site. The  
vulnerable web-site is not the target of attack but is used as a tool for the hacker in the attack of the victim.  
Vendor:  
Utopia Software  
Vendor Status:   
The Vendor has been notified several times on many different email addresses last on 6 June 2007. The Vendor has not responded. There is no official fix  
at the release of this Security Advisory.  
Workaround:   
Absent  
Example:   
The attacker must commit 6 unsuccessful login attempts with 'admin' username. So he will be able to see CAPTCHA.   
REQUEST:  
http://[TARGET]/[UTOPIA NEWS PRO-DIRECTORY]/login.php?username=admin  
&password=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookies)%3C/script%3E  
REPLY:  
will execute <script>alert(document.cookie)</script>  
Credits:   
Jesper Jurcenoks  
Co-founder netVigilance, Inc  
www.netvigilance.com  
  
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