PT-2009-33 iNTERNET.cms Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affected SoftwareiNTERNET.cms Versions prior to 1.1.28 Product Link: http://internet-cms.ruSeverity 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 DescriptioniNTERNET.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 iNTERNET.cms.User input passed to the "search_query" setting 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. 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 INTERNET.cms(r881) or latest version.Disclosure Timeline03/25/2009 - Vendor is notified 03/26/2009 - Vendor response 05/18/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version 05/26/2009 - Requested status update from vendor 05/27/2009 - Public disclosureCreditsThis vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.Referenceshttp://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-33 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
