Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2392 - Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in CMSimple Index.PHP Search

#
# Josh Zlatin-Amishav (josh at ramat dot cc)
# GPLv2
#
# Changes by Tenable:
# - Revised plugin title (12/22/2008)


include("compat.inc");

if (description) {
  script_id(19692);
  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2392");
  script_bugtraq_id(14346);
  script_version("1.20");

  script_name(english:"CMSimple index.php search Function XSS");
 
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server is hosting a PHP application that is affected
by a cross-site scripting vulnerability." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running CMSimple, a CMS written in PHP. 

The version of CMSimple installed on the remote host is prone to
cross-site scripting attacks due to its failure to sanitize
user-supplied input to the search field." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2005/07/cmsimple-search-variable-xss.html" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2006/Aug/58" );
  # http://web.archive.org/web/20071014163422/http://www.cmsimple.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2470
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?1f3df82c" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to CMSimple 2.5 beta 3 or later." );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
 script_cwe_id(20, 74, 79, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 750, 751, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990);

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2005/09/14");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2005/07/21");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/12");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value: "2005/07/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:cmsmadesimple:cms_made_simple");
script_end_attributes();

 
  summary["english"] = "Checks for XSS in search field in index.php";
  script_summary(english:summary["english"]);
 
  script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
  script_family(english:"CGI abuses : XSS");

  script_copyright(english:"(C) 2005-2020 Josh Zlatin-Amishav");

  script_dependencie("http_version.nasl", "cross_site_scripting.nasl");
  script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
  script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
  script_require_keys("www/PHP");
  exit(0);
}

include("global_settings.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("url_func.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);
if (!get_port_state(port)) exit(0);
if (!can_host_php(port:port)) exit(0);
if ( get_kb_item("www/"+port+"/generic_xss") ) exit(0);

xss = "<script>alert('" + SCRIPT_NAME + "');</script>";
exss = urlencode(str:xss);

foreach dir ( cgi_dirs() )
{
  req = http_get(
    item:string(
      dir, "/index.php?",
     'search=', exss, "&function=search"
    ),
    port:port
  );
  res = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE);
  if (res == NULL) exit(0);

  # There's a problem if we see our XSS.
  if (
    xss >< res &&
    (
      egrep(string:res, pattern:'meta name="generator" content="CMSimple .+ cmsimple\\.dk') ||
      egrep(string:res, pattern:'href="http://www\\.cmsimple\\.dk/".+>Powered by CMSimple<') ||
      egrep(string:res, pattern:string('href="', dir, '/\\?&(sitemap|print)">'))
    )
  ) 
  {
    security_warning(port);
    set_kb_item(name: 'www/'+port+'/XSS', value: TRUE);
    exit(0);
  }
}