A vulnerability was found in Monstra CMS 3.0.4 (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the file admin/index.php. The manipulation of the argument page_meta_title as part of a Parameter leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

admin/index.php in Monstra CMS 3.0.4 allows XSS via the page_meta_title parameter in an add_page action.

The bug was discovered 09/12/2017. The weakness was published 09/13/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-17024 since 09/13/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a single authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 366 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:admin/index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entry is available at 124046.

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• Content Management System

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• Monstra

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• 3.0.4

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• open-source

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