Cross-site scripting in PivotX - CVE-2014-0341

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0341

Sources

• 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