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Baby Gekko CMS v1.1.5c Multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Medium

Advisory ID

ZSL-2012-5086

Release Date

02 May 2012

Vendor

Baby Gekko, Inc. - http://www.babygekko.com

Affected Version

1.1.5c

CVE

CVE-2012-3836, CVE-2012-3837, CVE-2012-3838

Tested On

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN), Apache 2.2.21, PHP 5.3.9, MySQL 5.5.20

Summary

BabyGekko strives to deliver high quality websites and other web content fast and easy for all end users. It is a lightweight, extensible content management system platform for publishing websites, intranets, or blogs.

Description

Baby Gekko CMS suffers from multiple stored (post-auth) XSS vulnerabilities and path disclosure issues when parsing user input to several parameters via GET and POST method. Attackers can exploit this weakness to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session or disclose the full installation path of the affected CMS.

Reflected (Non-Persistent) XSS:

 1. username
 2. password
 3. verification_code
 4. email_address
 5. password_verify
 6. firstname
 7. lastname

Stored (Persistent) XSS:

 8. groupname
 9. virtual_filename
10. branch
11. contact_person
12. street
13. city
14. province
15. postal
16. country
17. tollfree
18. phone
19. fax
20. mobile
21. title
22. meta_key
23. meta_description

Proof of Concept

babygekko_xss.txtTXT

Disclosure Timeline

05.04.2012Vulnerabilities discovered.

05.04.2012Initial contact with the vendor.

06.04.2012Vendor responds asking more details.

07.04.2012Sent details to the vendor.

09.04.2012Vendor replies confirming the issues.

10.04.2012Working with the vendor.

02.05.2012Vendor releases patched version 1.2.0 to address these issues.

02.05.2012Coordinated public security advisory released.

Credits