SB2017011304 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GeniXCMS
Published: January 13, 2017
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5515)
Vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in the user prompt function in GeniXCMS through 0.0.8. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security 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) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5516)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via "token" HTTP GET parameter to "/gxadmin/inc/pages_form.php", "/gxadmin/inc/posts_form.php", "/gxadmin/inc/menus_form.php", "/gxadmin/inc/menus_form_edit.php", and "/gxadmin/inc/user_form.php" scripts. 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.
3) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5517)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send specially specially crafted HTTP GET request with SQL operators in the "type" parameter to author.control.php script in GeniXCMS through 0.0.8 and execute arbitrary SQL commands in web application database.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain complete control over vulnerable website.
4) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5519)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands in database.The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can send specially specially crafted HTTP GET request with SQL operators in the "id" parameter to Posts.class.php in GeniXCMS through 0.0.8 and execute arbitrary SQL commands in web application database.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain complete control over vulnerable website.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.