SB2014041504 - Multiple vulnerabilities in pivotlog.net PivotX

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0341)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via the title field to (1) templates_internal/pages.tpl, (2) templates_internal/home.tpl, or (3) templates_internal/entries.tpl; (4) an event field to objects.php; or the (5) email or (6) nickname field to pages.php, related to templates_internal/users.tpl. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0342)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in fileupload.php in PivotX before 2.3.9 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a (1) .php or (2) .php# extension, and then accessing it via unspecified vectors. Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/434.html "CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type"

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• http://blog.pivotx.net/archive/2014/03/03/pivotx-239-released
• http://pivotx.net/page/security
• http://sourceforge.net/p/pivot-weblog/code/4345/
• http://sourceforge.net/p/pivot-weblog/code/4349/
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/901156
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66800
• http://sourceforge.net/p/pivot-weblog/code/4347/