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phpList 2.10.17 Remote SQL Injection and XSS Vulnerability

Medium
Advisory ID
ZSL-2012-5081
Release Date
21 March 2012
Vendor
phpList Ltd - http://www.phplist.com
Affected Version
2.10.17
CVE
CVE-2012-2740, CVE-2012-2741
Tested On
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN), Apache 2.2.21, PHP 5.3.9, MySQL 5.5.20
Summary

phplist is the world's most popular open source email campaign manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10,000 times per month.

Description

Input passed via the parameter 'sortby' is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user or used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. The param 'num' is vulnerable to a XSS issue where the attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Proof of Concept
phplist.txtTXT
Disclosure Timeline
05.03.2012Vulnerabilities discovered.
19.03.2012Submited details to the vendor's bug tracking system.
19.03.2012Vendor investigates, confirms and fixes the issues.
19.03.2012Sent patch release coordination to the vendor.
21.03.2012Vendor releases version 2.10.18 to address these issues.
21.03.2012Coordinated public security advisory released.
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic
References
[1]https://www.phplist.com/?lid=567
[2]https://mantis.phplist.com/view.php?id=16557
[3]http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18639/
[4]http://www.1337day.com/exploits/17788
[5]http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52657
[6]http://secunia.com/advisories/48491/
[7]http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2012030192
[8]http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/111080
[9]http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74206
[10]http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/74207
[11]http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/80283
[12]http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/80284
[13]http://securitytracker.com/id/1027181
[14]http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2740
[15]http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2741
Changelog
21.03.2012Initial release
22.03.2012Added reference [3], [4], [5], [6] and [7]
23.03.2012Added reference [8], [9], [10], [11] and [12]
25.06.2012Added reference [13], [14] and [15]