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SetSeed CMS 5.8.20 (loggedInUser) Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2011-5053
Release Date
02 November 2011
Vendor
Affected Version
5.8.20
Tested On
Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3 (EN), Apache 2.2.21, MySQL 5.5.16, PHP 5.3.8
Summary

SetSeed is a self-hosted CMS which lets you rapidly build and deploy complete websites and online stores for your clients.

Description

SetSeed CMS is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the vulnerable script using the cookie input 'loggedInUser', which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.

Proof of Concept
Disclosure Timeline
04.11.2011Vendor releases version 5.11.2 which does not affect this vulnerability.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
Changelog
02.11.2011Initial release
03.11.2011Added reference [2], [3], [4] and [5]
04.11.2011Added reference [6] and [7]
04.11.2011Added vendor status.
24.11.2012Added reference [8]