bugtraq - XSS in Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:40:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: advisory@...ridge.ch
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: XSS in Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

Vulnerability ID: HTB23027
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/xss_in_tiki_wiki_cms_groupware.html
Product: Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Vendor: info.tiki.org ( http://info.tiki.org ) 
Vulnerable Version: 7.0 and probably prior
Tested on: 7.0
Vendor Notification: 29 June 2011 
Vulnerability Type: XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
Status: Fixed by Vendor
Risk level: Medium 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab ( http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/ ) 

Vulnerability Details:
High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered vulnerability in Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed via the GET "ajax" parameter to snarf_ajax.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of affected website.

The following PoC code is available:

http://[host]/snarf_ajax.php?url=1&ajax=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.cookie%29;%3C/script%3E

This vulnerability work only against users in "Admins" group.
Solution: Upgrade to the most recent version