PT-2009-14: BLOG CMS Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affected SoftwareBLOG CMS Versions prior 4.2.0 Product Link: http://www.blogcms.comSeverity Rating Severity: Medium Impact: Cross-Site Scripting Attack Vector: RemoteCVSS v2Base Score: 4.3 Temporal Score: 3.4 Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C) CVE: not assignedSoftware DescriptionBLOG CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images).Vulnerability DescriptionPositive Technologies Research Team has discovered a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in BLOG CMS.User input passed to certain parameter is not properly sanitized. This can be exploited to inject malicious code and allows to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site. Vulnerability details are not disclosed.Malicious users may inject JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML or Flash into a vulnerable application to fool users in order to gather data from their machines. An attacker can steal the session cookie and take over the account impersonating the user. It is also possible to modify page content presented to the user.SolutionUpdate to latest version.Disclosure Timeline03/03/2009 - Vendor is notified 03/03/2009 - Vendor response 03/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor 03/03/2009 - Vendor has informed that vulnerability is already corrected in the new version 03/13/2009 - Public disclosureCreditsThis vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.Referenceshttp://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-14 http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.aspComplete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/ http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
