Kentico CMS <=5.5R2.23 Cross-Site Scripting POST Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: Kentico Software
Product web page: http://www.kentico.com
Affected version: 5.5R2.23 and bellow
Summary: .NET Web Content Management System for ASP.NET
Desc: Kentico CMS suffers from a XSS vulnerability when parsing
user input to the 'userContextMenu_parameter' parameter via POST
method in '/examples/webparts/membership/users-viewer.aspx'.
Attackers can exploit this weakness to execute arbitrary HTML
and script code in a user's browser session.
Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3 (EN)
Microsoft-IIS/7.5
ASP.NET 2.0.50727
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
liquidworm gmail com
Vendor timeline:
12.03.2011 - Vulnerability discovered.
21.05.2011 - Vendor contacted with sent PoC files.
23.05.2011 - Vendor replies.
23.05.2011 - Asked vendor for confirmation.
24.05.2011 - Vendor confirms issue scheduling hotfix 5.5R2.24.
31.05.2011 - Coordinated public security advisory released.
Advisory ID: ZSL-2011-5015
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-5015.php
Vendor Advisory: http://devnet.kentico.com/Bugtracker/Hotfixes.aspx
12.03.2011
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POST http://localhost/examples/webparts/membership/users-viewer.aspx HTTP/1.1
&userContextMenu_parameter=%22%20onmouseover%3Dalert%281%29%20zsl%3D%22
