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mimicboard2 Script Insertion and Exposure of User Credentials
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16756
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Release Date:
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2005-09-09
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Popularity:
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7,041 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | mimicboard2
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Description:
Donnie Werner has reported a vulnerability and a security issue in mimicboard2, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and disclose sensitive information.
1) Input passed to the "name", "title" and "comment" fields in a post isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
2) The security issue is caused due to user credentials being stored in the "mimic2.dat" file inside the web root. This can be exploited to disclose the administrator's password.
The vulnerability and the security issue have been reported in build #086 and prior.
Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised and move the "mimic2.dat" file out of the web root.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Donnie Werner, exploitlabs
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