Virus Watch: The Chinese Bootkit

We recently discovered a new bootkit, i.e. a malicious program which infects the hard drive’s boot sector. Kaspersky Lab detects it as Rookit.Win32.Fisp.a. The bootkit is distributed by Trojan-Downloader.NSIS.Agent.jd. The Trojan infects the computers of users who try to download a video clip fro...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in WP-StarsRateBox

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in WP-StarsRateBox WordPress Plugin which could be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks. 1 Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in WP-StarsRateBox The vulnerability exists due to inp...

TutorialMS v1.4 (show) Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability

Summary TutorialMS is a free content management system, developed specifically for tutorial pages. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL as a database. TutorialMS offers all the usual features you need to build quick and easy your own tutorial page, without great programming knowledge. Description...

DoceboLMS 4.0.4 Multiple Stored XSS Vulnerabilities

Summary DoceboLMS is a SCORM compliant Open Source e-Learning platform used in corporate, government and education markets. Description DoceboLMS suffers from multiple stored XSS vulnerabilities pre and post auth. Input thru the POST parameters 'name', 'code' and 'title' in index.php is not...

Antamedia Internet Cafe Software 7.1 Insecure Permissions/DLL Loading

Summary Internet Cafe Software – Cyber Cafe software is a worldwide top selling solution for CyberCafe management and game center control. It protects your computers from unauthorized usage and helps with customer billing. Many features like POS, print manager, console controller, smart cards,...

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Plogger

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Plogger which could be exploited to perform cross-site request forgery attacks. 1 Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Plogger The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the request...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 (POST) Stored XSS And XPath Injection

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 Stored XSS And XPath Injection function xpathdocument.forms"xpath".submit; function xssdocument.forms"xss".submit; input type="hidden" name="message" valu...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting XML Injection

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting XML Injection Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 Stored XSS And XPath Injection function xpathdocument.forms"xml".submit; function xssdocument.forms"xss".submit; a href="javascri...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 XSS / XML Injection

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 Stored XSS And XPath Injection function xpathdocument.forms"xpath".submit; function xssdocument.forms"xss".submit; font color="r...

Family Connections 2.3.2 - subject HTML Injection

Family Connections 2.3.2 - subject HTML Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47037/info Family Connections is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 (POST) Stored XSS And XML Injection

Summary Family Connections is an open source content management system. It makes creating a private, family website easy and fun. Description FCMS suffers from a stored XSS vulnerability post-auth in messageboard.php script thru the 'subject' post parameter. XML Inj. lies in the /inc/getChat.php...

Family Connections 2.3.2 - 'subject' HTML Injection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47037/info Family Connections is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context...

Elizabeth Taylor's Death Triggers Spam Campaign

Yesterday we learned that Elizabeth Taylor, an American icon for some seven decades, died of congestive heart failure at 79. Today, Kaspersky Lab expert Dmitry Bestuzhev informs us that the news of her death is being exploited via social engineering scams on Twitter. The scam uses a shortened,...

ZDI-11-106: Novell Netware NWFTPD.NLM DELE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-106: Novell Netware NWFTPD.NLM DELE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-106 March 18, 2011 -- CVE ID: CVE-2010-4228 -- CVSS: 9, AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C -- Affected Vendors: Novell -- Affected Products: Novell Netware -- TippingPointTM I...

The Decline and Fall of Slammer?

Me and Slammer Helkern go back a long way… to 25 January 2003 to be precise. It was a baptism of fire for me in my new role as a virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab. It was a weekend and I was alone, in charge of monitoring the incoming flow of suspicious files. I had barely been at the company a mont...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Eleanor CMS

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerabilities in Eleanor CMS which could be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks. 1 Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Eleanor CMS The vulnerability exists due to input sanitation error in the...

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability in InTerra Blog Machine

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerability in InTerra Blog Machine which could be exploited to perform cross-site request forgery attacks. 1 Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in InTerra Blog Machine: CVE-2011-1670 The vulnerability exists due to insufficien...

Pointter PHP Content Management System 1.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Summary Pointter PHP Content Management System is an advanced, fast and user friendly CMS script that can be used to build simple websites or professional websites with product categorization, product blogs, member login and search modules. The webmaster can create unlimited static page boxes,...

Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection 1.3 Improper Permissions

Summary Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection is a static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code. Customers can run the tool on their ASP source code to help identify code paths that are vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. Description The package...

The Security of the Android Operating System

In this video, Tim Armstrong, a malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab talks with Ryan Naraine about the strengths and weaknesses of the Android operating system. Armstrong looks at strengths and weaknesses of the open-source platform and warns about the risks associated with jailbreaking/rooting...