Secunia Research: LotusCMS Two PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities

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                     Secunia Research 15/03/2011

	- LotusCMS Two PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software...................................................1
Severity............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software....................................3
Description of Vulnerability........................................4
Solution............................................................5
Time Table..........................................................6
Credits.............................................................7
References..........................................................8
About Secunia.......................................................9
Verification.......................................................10

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1) Affected Software 

* LotusCMS version 3.0.3
* LotusCMS version 3.0.5

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Highly Critical
Impact: System access
Where:  From remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"State of the Art, flat-file, Content Management System."

Product Link:
http://www.lotuscms.org/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in LotusCMS, which 
can be exploited by malicious users and malicious people to compromise 
a vulnerable system.

1) Input passed via the "req" parameter to index.php (when system" is 
set to "Modules", "page" is set to "admin", and "active" is set to 
Menu") is not properly sanitised before being used in an "eval()" 
call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires "editor" access.

2) Input passed via the "page" parameter to index.php is not properly 
sanitised in the "Router()" function in core/lib/router.php before 
being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute 
arbitrary PHP code.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that
"magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

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5) Solution 

A fix is not currently available.

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6) Time Table
09/03/2011 - Vendor notified.
15/03/2011 - Vendor issues updated version supposed to address the
             vulnerability. However, the fix is ineffective.
15/03/2011 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has not 
currently assigned a CVE identifier for the vulnerabilities.

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10) Verification 

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http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-21/

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