Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

BID:9935

Info

Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 9935
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 20 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 20 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Manuel Lopez <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.5
Not Vulnerable: Expinion.net News Manager Lite 2.6

Discussion

Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the application that may allow an attacker to carry out SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and account hijacking attacks.

The issues exist in the 'comment_add.asp', 'search.asp', 'category_news_headline.asp', 'more.asp', 'category_news.asp', and 'ews_sort.asp' scripts. Further more a cookie account hijacking issue was also discovered in the application that may allow a remote attacker to gain administrative access to application's administrative interface.

News Manager Lite 2.5 is reported to be affected by these issues, however, other versions may be affected as well.

Exploit / POC

Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept has been provided:
http://www.example.com/comment_add.asp?ID=3&email=[XSS]
http://www.example.com/search.asp?search=[XSS]
http://www.example.com/category_news_headline.asp?ID=2&n=[XSS]
http://www.example.com/more.asp?ID='[SQL query]
http://www.example.com/category_news.asp?ID='[SQL]
http://www.example.com/news_sort.asp?filter='[SQL]
Cookie: NEWS%5FLOGIN=ADMIN=1&ID=1

Solution / Fix

Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Expinion.net has released News Manager Lite 2.6 to address these issue. Please contact the vendor to obtain the fixed version.

References

Expinion.net News Manager Lite Multiple Vulnerabilities

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