From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 10:19:49 CDT

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TITLE:
phpWebSite Cross-Site Scripting and Script Insertion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12438

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12438/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpWebSite 0.x
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DESCRIPTION:
James Bercegay has reported some vulnerabilities in phpWebSite,
allowing malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and script
insertion attacks.

1) Input passed to the "pid" parameter in "index.php" is not
sanitised before being returned to authenticated users. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of a vulnerable site by tricking a user
into visiting a malicious website or follow a specially crafted
link.

Example:
http://[host]/index.php?module=comments&CM_op=replyToComment&CM_pid=1[code]

2) The calendar module does not sanitise input passed in the
"cal_template" field before being used in a SQL query. This can be
exploited to inject arbitrary SQL code when a malicious event is
approved by the administrator.

3) Input passed to the subject and message fields are not sanitised
before being included in a stored note. This can be exploited to
execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context
of an affected site when the note module is accessed.

The vulnerabilities reportedly affect version 0.9.3-4 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch:
http://www.phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/security/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
James Bercegay, GulfTech Security Research Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00048-08312004

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