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Snowfox CMS v1.0 (rd param) Open Redirect Vulnerability

Low

Advisory ID

ZSL-2014-5206

Release Date

18 November 2014

Vendor

Globiz Solutions - http://www.snowfoxcms.org

Affected Version

1.0

CVE

CVE-2014-9343

Tested On

Apache/2.4.7 (Win32), PHP/5.5.6, MySQL 5.6.14

Summary

Snowfox is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows your website users to create and share content based on permission configurations.

Description

Input passed via the 'rd' GET parameter in 'selectlanguage.class.php' script is not properly verified before being used to redirect users. This can be exploited to redirect a user to an arbitrary website e.g. when a user clicks a specially crafted link to the affected script hosted on a trusted domain.

/modules/system/controller/selectlanguage.class.php:
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28: if ($results && isset($inputs['rd'])){
29:      header("location: ".$inputs['rd']);
30: }
31: return $results;

Proof of Concept

snowfox_url.txtTXT

Disclosure Timeline

20.11.2014Vendor releases version 1.0.10 to address this issue.

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic

References

[1]http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2014110127

[2]http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129162

[3]http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71174

[4]http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/98811

[5]https://github.com/GlobizSolutions/snowfox/releases