All Links in Two Topics of Indiatimes (indiatimes.com) Are Vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Attacks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) Domain Description:

http://www.indiatimes.com

"The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world according to Audit Bureau of Circulations (India). According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2012, the Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 7.643 million. This ranks the Times of India as the top English daily in India by readership. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, Times of India was ranked 88th among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013, Times of India was ranked 100th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however, Times of India was ranked 174th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory." (en.Wikipedia.org)

(2) Vulnerability description:

The web application indiatimes.com online website has a security problem. Hacker can exploit it by XSS bugs.

The code flaw occurs at Indiatimes's URL links. Indiatimes only filter part of the filenames in its website. All URLs under Indiatimes's "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics are affected. 

Indiatimes uses part of the links under "photogallery" and "top-llists" topics to construct its website content without any checking of those links at all. This mistake is very popular in nowaday websites. Developer is not security expert.

The vulnerability can be attacked without user login. Tests were performed on Mozilla Firefox (26.0) in Ubuntu (12.04) and Microsoft IE (9.0.15) in Windows 7.

POC Codes:

http://www.indiatimes.com/photogallery/">homeqingdao<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/top-lists/">singaporemanagementuniversity<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/photogallery/lifestyle/">astar<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

http://www.indiatimes.com/top-lists/technology/">nationaluniversityofsingapore<img src=x onerror=prompt('justqdjing')>

POC Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeJWu8_5BKU&feature=youtu.be

Blog Details:

http://securityrelated.blogspot.com/2014/11/two-topics-of-indiatimes-indiatimescom.html

What is XSS?

"Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted web sites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it." (OWASP)

(3) Vulnerability Disclosure:

The vulnerabilities were reported to Indiatimes in early September, 2014. However they are still unpatched.

Discovered and Reported by:

Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)

http://www.tetraph.com/wangjing/

Related Articles:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/91

http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2014/11/27/6

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1256

https://progressive-comp.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=141705615327961&w=1

http://tetraph.blog.163.com/blog/static/234603051201501352218524/

http://www.techworm.net/2014/12/times-india-website-vulnerable-xss

https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2014120004

https://vulnerabilitypost.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/indiatimes-xss

http://diebiyi.com/articles/security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

http://www.inzeed.com/kaleidoscope/computer-security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

http://itsecurity.lofter.com/post/1cfbf9e7_54fc6c9

http://computerobsess.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes.html

http://whitehatview.tumblr.com/post/104310651681/times-of-india-website-vulnerable-to

http://www.tetraph.com/blog/computer-security/all-links-in-two-topics-of-indiatimes

OSVDB 120807 NetCat CMS 3.12 HTML Injection Web Security Vulnerabilities

OSVDB 120807 NetCat CMS 3.12 HTML Injection Web Security Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: NetCat CMS 3.12 /catalog/search.php? q Parameter HTML Injection Web  Security Vulnerabilities

Product: NetCat CMS (Content Management System)

Vendor: NetCat

Vulnerable Versions: 3.12   3.0   2.4   2.3   2.2   2.1   2.0   1.1

Tested Version: 3.12

Advisory Publication: April 15, 2015

Latest Update: April 15, 2015

Vulnerability Type: Improper Input Validation [CWE-20]

CVE Reference: *

OSVDB Reference: 120807

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized modification

Discover and Reporter: Wang Jing, Division of Mathematical Sciences (MAS), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. (@justqdjing)

Advisory Details:

(1) Vendor & Product Description:

Vendor:

NetCat

Product & Vulnerable Version:

NetCat

3.12   3.0   2.4   2.3   2.2   2.1   2.0   1.1

Vendor URL & Download:

NetCat can be downloaded from here,

http://netcat.ru/

Product Introduction Overview:

NetCat.ru is russian local company. "NetCat designed to create an absolute majority of the types of sites: from simple "business card" with a minimum content to complex web-based systems, from corporate offices to online stores, libraries or media data - in other words, projects completely different directions and at any level of complexity. View examples of sites running on NetCat CMS can be in a special section."

"Manage the site on the basis of NetCat can even inexperienced user, because it does not require knowledge of Internet technologies, programming and markup languages. NetCat constantly improving, adds new features. In the process of finalizing necessarily take into account the wishes of our partners and clients, as well as trends in Internet development. More than 2,000 studios and private web developers have chosen for their projects is NetCat, and in 2013 sites, successfully working on our CMS, created more than 18,000."

(2) Vulnerability Details:

NetCat web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by HTML Injection attacks. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) injection, also sometimes referred to as virtual defacement, is an attack on a user made possible by an injection vulnerability in a web application. When an application does not properly handle user supplied data, an attacker can supply valid HTML, typically via a parameter value, and inject their own content into the page. This attack is typically used in conjunction with some form of social engineering, as the attack is exploiting a code-based vulnerability and a user's trust.

Several NetCat products 0-day vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. NetCat has patched some of them. Web Security Watch is an aggregator of security reports coming from various sources. It aims to provide a single point of tracking for all publicly disclosed security issues that matter. "Its unique tagging system enables you to see a relevant set of tags associated with each security alert for a quick overview of the affected products. What's more, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed containing the specific tags that you are interested in - you will then only receive alerts related to those tags." It has published suggestions, advisories, solutions details related to cyber security vulnerabilities.

(2.1) The programming code flaw occurs at "/catalog/search.php?" page with "&q" parameter.

Related Articles:

http://www.osvdb.org/show/osvdb/120807

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/37

http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2015/04/15/3

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1843

https://www.mail-archive.com/fulldisclosure%40seclists.org/msg01922.html

http://cxsecurity.com/search/author/DESC/AND/FIND/1/10/Wang+Jing/

https://progressive-comp.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=142907520526783&w=1

http://tetraph.com/security/html-injection/netcat-cms-3-12-html-injection/

http://whitehatpost.blog.163.com/blog/static/242232054201551434123334/

http://russiapost.blogspot.ru/2015/06/netcat-html-injection.html

https://inzeed.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/netcat-html-injection/

http://computerobsess.blogspot.com/2015/06/osvdb-120807.html

http://blog.163.com/greensun_2006/blog/static/11122112201551434045926/

http://www.inzeed.com/kaleidoscope/computer-web-security/netcat-cms-3-12-html/

http://germancast.blogspot.de/2015/06/netcat-html-injection.html

http://diebiyi.com/articles/security/netcat-cms-3-12-html-injection/

CVE-2015-2243 Webshop hun v1.062S Directory Traversal Web Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2243 Webshop hun v1.062S Directory Traversal Web Security Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: CVE-2015-2243 Webshop hun v1.062S /index.php &mappa Parameter Directory Traversal Web Security Vulnerabilities
Product: Webshop hun
Vendor: Webshop hun
Vulnerable Versions: v1.062S
Tested Version: v1.062S
Advisory Publication: March 01, 2015
Latest Update: April 28, 2015
Vulnerability Type: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') [CWE-22]
CVE Reference: CVE-2015-2243
Impact CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Credit: Wang Jing [School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore] (@justqdjing)







Introduction Details:


(1) Vendor & Product Description:


Vendor:
Webshop hun


Product & Version:
Webshop hun
v1.062S


Vendor URL & Download:
Webshop hun can be required from here,
http://www.webshophun.hu/index


Product Introduction Overview:
Webshop hun is an online product sell web application system.

"If our webshop you want to distribute your products, but it is too expensive to find on the internet found solutions, select the Webshop Hun shop program and get web store for free and total maker banner must display at the bottom of the page 468x60 size. The download shop program, there is no product piece limit nor any quantitative restrictions, can be used immediately after installation video which we provide assistance.

"The Hun Shop store for a free for all. In our experience, the most dynamic web solutions ranging from our country. If the Webshop Hun own image does not suit you, you can also customize the look of some of the images and the corresponding text replacement, or an extra charge we can realize your ideas. The Webshop Hun pages search engine optimized. They made the Hun Shop web program to meet efficiency guidelines for the search engines. The pages are easy to read and contain no unnecessary HTML tags. Any web page is simply a few clicks away."





(2) Vulnerability Details:
Webshop hun web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by Directory Traversal - Local File Include (LFI) attacks. A local file inclusion (LFI) flaw is due to the script not properly sanitizing user input, specifically path traversal style attacks (e.g. '../../') supplied to the parameters. With a specially crafted request, a remote attacker can include arbitrary files from the targeted host or from a remote host . This may allow disclosing file contents or executing files like PHP scripts. Such attacks are limited due to the script only calling files already on the target host.

Several similar products vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. Webshop hun has patched some of them. The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit company that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), which provide innovative, practical solutions for some of our nation's most critical challenges in defense and intelligence, aviation, civil systems, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity. It has published suggestions, advisories, solutions details related to website vulnerabilities.

(2.1) The vulnerability occurs at "&mappa" parameter in "index.php?" page.










References:
http://tetraph.com/security/directory-traversal-vulnerability/webshop-hun-v1-062s-directory-traversal-security-vulnerabilities/
http://securityrelated.blogspot.sg/2015/03/webshop-hun-v1062s-directory-traversal.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130653/Webshop-Hun-1.062S-Directory-Traversal.html
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=142551569801614&w=4
http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2015/03/05/5
https://www.mail-archive.com/fulldisclosure%40seclists.org/msg01902.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.fulldisclosure/1666
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/26
http://lists.kde.org/?a=139222176300014&r=1&w=2
http://webcabinet.tumblr.com/post/118677916572/cve-2015-2243-webshop-hun-v1-062s-directory
https://computerpitch.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/cve-2015-2243-webshop-hun-v1-062s-directory-traversal-web-security-vulnerabilities/
http://www.covertredirect.com/tech/
https://plus.google.com/+essayjeans/posts/4yoeMytdEKx
http://whitehatpost.blog.163.com/blog/static/242232054201541122051794/
http://user.qzone.qq.com/2519094351/blog/1431325305
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=734394456671300&id=660347734075973
http://germancast.blogspot.de/2015/05/cve-2015-2243-webshop-hun-v1062s.html
https://twitter.com/essayjeans/status/597645566760226816
http://ittechnology.lofter.com/post/1cfbf60d_6eb449f

CVE-2014-9562 OptimalSite Content Management System (CMS) XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-9562 OptimalSite Content Management System (CMS) XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Web Security Vulnerabilities


Exploit Title:  OptimalSite CMS /display_dialog.php image Parameter XSS Web Security Vulnerability
Vendor: OptimalSite
Product: OptimalSite Content Management System (CMS)
Vulnerable Versions: V.1 V2.4
Tested Version: V.1 V2.4
Advisory Publication: January 24, 2015
Latest Update: January 31, 2015
Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting [CWE-79]
CVE Reference: CVE-2014-9562
Impact CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized modification
Credit: Jing Wang [School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore] (@justqdjing)




Suggestion Details:
(1) Vendor & Product Description
Vendor:
OptimalSite

Product & Version:
OptimalSite Content Management System (CMS)
V.1
V2.4

Vendor URL & Download:
The product can be obtained from here,
http://www.optimalsite.com/en/

Product Description Overview:
"Content management system OptimalSite is an online software package that enables the management of information published on a website. OptimalSite consists of the system core and integrated modules, which allow expanding website possibilities and functionality. You may select a set of modules that suits your needs best.

Website page structure
Website page structure is presented in a tree structure similar to Windows Explorer, so that several page levels can be created for each item on the menu.  The website's structure itself can be easily edited: you can create new website pages, delete unnecessary ones, and temporarily disable individual pages.

Website languages
OptimalSite may be used to create a website in different languages, the number of which is not limited. Different information may be presented in each separate language and the structure of pages in each language may also differ.

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor
Using this universal text editor makes posting and replacing information on the website effortless.   Even a minimum knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel will make it easy to use the tools of WYSIWYG text editor and implement your ideas.

Search function in the system
By using search function system’s administrator is able to find any information that is published in administrative environment. It is possible to execute a search in the whole system and in separate its’ modules as well.

Recycle bin function
System administrator is able to delete useless data.  All deleted data is stored in recycle bin, so administrator can restore information anytime. "



(2) Vulnerability Details:
OptimalSite web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by stored XSS attacks. This may allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between their browser and the server.
Several other the similar product 0-day vulnerabilities have been found by some other bug hunter researchers before. OptinalSite has patched some of them. "Openwall software releases and other related files are also available from the Openwall file archive and its mirrors. You are encouraged to use the mirrors, but be sure to verify the signatures on software you download. The more experienced users and software developers may use our CVSweb server to browse through the source code for most pieces of Openwall software along with revision history information for each source file. We publish articles, make presentations, and offer professional services." Openwall has published suggestions, advisories, solutions details related to XSS vulnerabilities.

(2.1) The code programming flaw occurs at "&image" parameter in "display_dialog.php" page.





References:
http://www.tetraph.com/blog/xss-vulnerability/cve-2014-9562-optimalsite-content-management-system-cms-xss-cross-site-scripting-web-security-vulnerabilities/
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9562
https://www.mail-archive.com/fulldisclosure%40seclists.org/msg01646.html
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ESPN Are Suffering Serious XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Security Vulnerabilities

ESPN Are Suffering Serious XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation Security Vulnerabilities

Popular ESPN website (espn.go.com) has been found to be vulnerable to multiple serious XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation security vulnerabilities according to Jing Wang, a mathematics student from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Wang found a large number of ESPN’s credible links were vulnerable to XSS and Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation attacks. These vulnerabilities occur at ESPN’s “login” & “register” pages.

ESPN is one of the most common U.S.-based cable and satellite TV channel with close to 100 million subscribers. Its Alexa global rank is 63 and US rank is 14. Based on eBizMBA, “As of December 1, 2014, ESPN has an estimated 80,000,000 unique monthly visitors.” At the same time, ESPN broadcasts in more than 200 countries.

Wang posted his findings on the Full Disclosure forum. He wrote that he had reported the issues to ESPN in early May 2014 but the vulnerabilities are still unpatched. According to Wang, “Those vulnerabilities are very dangerous. Since they happen at ESPN’s “login” & “register” pages that are credible. Attackers can abuse those links to mislead ESPN’s users. The success rate of attacks may be high.“


Proof of concept videos have also been released on YouTube to illustrate an attack.

(1)XSS DEMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEZO8wbTBU

(2)Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation DEMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvBt8Elj9w

According to OWASP, “XSS allows attackers to execute scripts in the victims browser which can hijack user sessions, deface websites or redirect the user to malicious sites.” While Dest Redirect Privilege Escalation “is used in phishing attacks to get users to visit malicious sites without realizing it.”
If ESPN’s users were exploited, attackers can get their identity. Those attacks can also be used to steal password, perform denial of service attacks, spy users’ habits, alter browser functionality, access sensitive information and so on.

Wang wrote his tests were using Firefox (33.0) in Ubuntu (14.04) and IE (8.0. 7601) in Windows 8. And the attack could work without a user being logged in.