RETIRED: Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

BID:53428

Info

RETIRED: Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 53428
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 09 2012 12:00AM
Updated: May 15 2012 10:40PM
Credit: Stefan Schurtz
Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 1.6
Not Vulnerable: S9Y Serendipity 1.6.1

Discussion

RETIRED: Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Serendipity is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

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

Serendipity 1.6 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

This BID is being retired as a duplicate of the issue discussed in BID 53418 (Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities).

Exploit / POC

RETIRED: Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a browser to exploit the SQL-injection issue. The attacker must trick an unsuspecting victim into following a malicious URI to exploit the cross-site scripting issue.


The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/serendipity/serendipity_admin_image_selector.php?serendipity[textarea]='";</script><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>

http://www.example.com/serendipity/serendipity_admin.php?serendipity[adminModule]=plugins&serendipity[plugin_to_conf]=-1' OR
SLEEP(10)=0 LIMIT 1--+

Solution / Fix

RETIRED: Serendipity SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

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