Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-7429 - XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) vulnerability in Mapsplugin Googlemaps 3.0

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
mapsplugin
CWE-91
critical
NVD
Published: 2017-09-14
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The Googlemaps plugin before 3.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the url parameter to plugin_googlemap2_proxy.php.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mapsplugin
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • XML Injection
    An attacker utilizes crafted XML user-controllable input to probe, attack, and inject data into the XML database, using techniques similar to SQL injection. The user-controllable input can allow for unauthorized viewing of data, bypassing authentication or the front-end application for direct XML database access, and possibly altering database information.
  • XPath Injection
    An attacker can craft special user-controllable input consisting of XPath expressions to inject the XML database and bypass authentication or glean information that he normally would not be able to. XPath Injection enables an attacker to talk directly to the XML database, thus bypassing the application completely. XPath Injection results from the failure of an application to properly sanitize input used as part of dynamic XPath expressions used to query an XML database. In order to successfully inject XML and retrieve information from a database, an attacker:

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