Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

BID:29813

Info

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 29813
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-2969
CVE-2008-2970
CVE-2008-2878
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 19 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2016 10:01PM
Credit: AmnPardaz Security Research Team
Vulnerable: Yektaweb Academic Webtools CMS 1.4.2.8
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Academic Web Tools CMS is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities:

- A directory-traversal vulnerability
- Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
- An HTML-injection vulnerability
- An SQL-injection vulnerability
- Multiple session-fixation vulnerabilities

Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, gain unauthorized access to the affected application, access or modify data, execute arbitrary local scripts, retrieve potentially sensitive information, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

An attacker can exploit these issues via a browser. To exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability, the attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to follow a malicious URI.

The following example URIs and exploit code are available:

Solution / Fix

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Academic Web Tools CMS 1.4.2.8 Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

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