e107 CMS up to 0.7.22 submitnews.php submitnews_title cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in e107 CMS up to 0.7.22. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file submitnews.php. This manipulation of the argument submitnews_title causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2010-4757. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in e107 CMS up to 0.7.22 (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the file submitnews.php. The manipulation of the argument submitnews_title with an unknown input 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:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in submitnews.php in e107 before 0.7.23 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the submitnews_title parameter, a different vector than CVE-2008-6208. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this might be the same as CVE-2009-4083.1 or CVE-2011-0457.

The weakness was presented 03/15/2011 (Website). The advisory is shared at e107.svn.sourceforge.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-4757 since 03/15/2011. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of 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.

By approaching the search of inurl:submitnews.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 0.7.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (61331) and SecurityTracker (ID 1024351†). See VDB-60203 for similar entry. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• e107

Name

• CMS

Version

• 0.7.0
• 0.7.1
• 0.7.2
• 0.7.3
• 0.7.4
• 0.7.5
• 0.7.6
• 0.7.7
• 0.7.8
• 0.7.9
• 0.7.10
• 0.7.11
• 0.7.12
• 0.7.13
• 0.7.14
• 0.7.15
• 0.7.16
• 0.7.17
• 0.7.18
• 0.7.19
• 0.7.20
• 0.7.21
• 0.7.22

License

• open-source

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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