Secunia Research: e107 Content Management Plugin Script Insertion Vulnerability

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                 Secunia Research 19/04/2010

• e107 Content Management Plugin Script Insertion Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Vendor's Description of Software…3
Description of Vulnerability…4
Solution…5
Time Table…6
Credits…7
References…8
About Secunia…9
Verification…10

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1) Affected Software

• e107 version 0.7.19

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Less critical
Impact: Cross-site scripting
Where: From remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the
popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's
completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.".

Product Link:
http://e107.org/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in e107, which can be
exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed via the "content_heading" parameter to
107_plugins/content/content_manager.php while creating new content is
not properly sanitised before being displayed to the user. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be
executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site
when the malicious data is being viewed.

Successful exploitation requires authentication and that the Content
Management plugin is enabled.

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5) Solution

Update to version 0.7.20.

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6) Time Table

18/03/2010 - Vendor notified.
18/03/2010 - Vendor response.
19/04/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2010-0997 for the vulnerability.

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-43/

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