TYPO3 Wir ber uns Extension SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	32237
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-5800 CVE-2008-5799
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 10 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 05 2009 10:52PM
Credit:	Georg Ringer and Marcus Krause
Vulnerable:	Andreas Cord-Landwehr Wir ber uns 0.0.24
Not Vulnerable:	Andreas Cord-Landwehr Wir ber uns 0.0.25

TYPO3 Wir ber uns Extension SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

The 'Wir ber uns' (fsmi_people) extension for TYPO3 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.

These issues affect fsmi_people 0.0.24; other versions may also be affected.

TYPO3 Wir ber uns Extension 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.

TYPO3 Wir ber uns Extension SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released an update. Please see the references for more information.


Andreas Cord-Landwehr Wir ber uns 0.0.24

• Andreas Cord-Landwehr fsmi_people_0.0.25.t3x
  http://typo3.org/fileadmin/ter/f/s/fsmi_people_0.0.25.t3x

TYPO3 Wir ber uns Extension SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• Wir ber uns Homepage (Andreas Cord-Landwehr)
  
• TYPO3 Collective Security Bulletin TYPO3-20081110-2: Several vulnerabilities in (TYPO3)