S9y Serendipity up to 1.7.2 spell-check-savedicts.php to_r_list cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in S9y Serendipity. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file spell-check-savedicts.php. Executing a manipulation of the argument to_r_list can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2013-5670. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in S9y Serendipity (Content Management System). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the file spell-check-savedicts.php. The manipulation of the argument to_r_list 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. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in spell-check-savedicts.php in the htmlarea SpellChecker module, as used in Serendipity before 1.7.3 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the to_r_list parameter.

The weakness was presented 11/05/2013 (oss-sec). The advisory is shared for download at openwall.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2013-5670 since 09/01/2013. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

By approaching the search of inurl:spell-check-savedicts.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.5.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (87395†). See VDB-65422 for similar entry. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• S9y

Name

• Serendipity

Version

• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.7
• 0.7.1
• 0.8
• 0.8.1
• 0.8.2
• 0.8.3
• 0.8.4
• 0.8.5
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.1
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.2.1
• 1.3.1
• 1.4.1
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.6
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.7
• 1.7.2

License

• free

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