Insanely Simple Blog search and blog entry cross-site scripting
| isb-search-blog-xss (35448) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Insanely Simple Blog is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the index.php script. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the posted_by, subject, or content parameter or the term parameter if search is enabled to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- Insanely Simple Blog, Insanely Simple Blog 0.5 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Jul 17 2007 - 05:08:41 CDT, Insanely simple blog - Multiple vulnerabilities (sql) at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-07/0160.html.
- SourceForge.net, Insanely Simple Blog at http://sourceforge.net/projects/insanelysimple2.
- BID-24934: Insanely Simple Blog Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2007-3888: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Insanely Simple Blog 0.5 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the search action, possibly related to the term parameter to index.php; or (2) an anonymous blog entry, possibly involving the (a) posted_by, (b) subject, and (c) content parameters to index.php; as demonstrated by the onmouseover attribute of certain elements. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
- SA26105: Insanely Simple Blog Multiple Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Jul 17, 2007
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