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The DigiTrust Group: Advisory #071214c - Drake CMS Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Product:
Drake CMS v0.4.9

Credits:
Omer Singer
The DigiTrust Group
http://www.digitrustgroup.com
December 14, 2007

Risk Level:
MEDIUM - Vulnerability can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

Program Summary:
Drake CMS is a light-weight content managment system (CMS) developed by the Open Source community with support for a variety of hosts and database systems.
http://drakecms.sourceforge.net/

Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability:
Input passed to the "option" parameter in "index.php" is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected web site.

Sample Exploit Code:
index.php?option="'><IFRAME%20SRC="javascript:alert('XSS');"></IFRAME>&Itemid=12

Vendor Solution:
Update to v0.4.10 RC6

Copyright (c) 2007 The DigiTrust Group.

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Disclaimer: The information in the advisory is believed to be accurate at the time of publishing based on currently available information. Use of the information constitutes acceptance for use on an AS IS condition. There are no warranties with regard to this information. Neither the author nor the publisher accepts any liability for any direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage arising from use of, or reliance on, this information.

 





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