phpFaber CMS Htmlarea.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20821
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 30 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 31 2006 09:17PM
Credit:	Vigilon is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	phpFaber phpFaber CMS 1.3.36
Not Vulnerable:

phpFaber CMS Htmlarea.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

phpFaber CMS is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code execute in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.

This issue affects version 1.3.36; earlier versions may also be vulnerable.

phpFaber CMS Htmlarea.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue with a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/cms_images/js/htmlarea/htmlarea.php?vigilon=>"><ScRiPt>alert("XSS")</ScRiPt>

phpFaber CMS Htmlarea.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a patch to address this issue.

phpFaber CMS Htmlarea.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

References:

• phpFaber CMS Product Page (phpFaber)
  
• Security Advisories: 10/25/06 (Vigilon)