Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

BID:29848

Info

Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 29848
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-7172
CVE-2008-7171
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 20 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2016 10:01PM
Credit: sToRm
Vulnerable: Yanick Bourbeau Lightweight news portal 1.0b
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Lightweight news portal is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including two cross-site scripting issues, an HTML-injection issue, an authentication-bypass issue, and an arbitrary-file-upload issue.

Attackers can leverage these issues to execute arbitrary HTML or script code in the context of the affected site or access certain administrative functions. This can allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is rendered to the user, launch denial-of-service attacks, and compromise the application; other attacks are also possible.

Lightweight news portal 1.0b is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit these issues using a browser. To exploit a cross-site scripting issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to follow a specially crafted URI.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

Solution / Fix

Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass 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

Lightweight news portal Multiple Input Validation and Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

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