SB2020022411 - Multiple vulnerabilities in eLection

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9336)

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 the Admin Dashboard -> Settings -> Election -> "message if election is closed" field. 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) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9340)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via the admin/ajax/op_kandidat.php "id" parameter. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.

Remediation

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

References

• https://github.com/0xEmma/CVEs/blob/master/CVEs/eLection-2.0-XSS.md
• https://github.com/J3rryBl4nks/eLection-TriPath-/blob/master/SQLiIntoRCE.md