Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-10082 - Improper Access Control vulnerability in S9Y Serendipity
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
include/functions_installer.inc.php in Serendipity through 2.0.5 is vulnerable to File Inclusion and a possible Code Execution attack during a first-time installation because it fails to sanitize the dbType POST parameter before adding it to an include() call in the bundled-libs/serendipity_generateFTPChecksums.php file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Embedding Scripts within Scripts An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities that are brought on by allowing remote hosts to execute scripts. The attacker leverages this capability to execute scripts to execute his/her own script by embedding it within other scripts that the target software is likely to execute. The attacker must have the ability to inject script into script that is likely to be executed. If this is done, then the attacker can potentially launch a variety of probes and attacks against the web server's local environment, in many cases the so-called DMZ, back end resources the web server can communicate with, and other hosts. With the proliferation of intermediaries, such as Web App Firewalls, network devices, and even printers having JVMs and Web servers, there are many locales where an attacker can inject malicious scripts. Since this attack pattern defines scripts within scripts, there are likely privileges to execute said attack on the host. Of course, these attacks are not solely limited to the server side, client side scripts like Ajax and client side JavaScript can contain malicious scripts as well. In general all that is required is for there to be sufficient privileges to execute a script, but not protected against writing.
- Signature Spoofing by Key Theft An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by theft and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
Nessus
| NASL family | CGI abuses |
| NASL id | SERENDIPITY_211.NASL |
| description | According to its banner, the version of Serendipity running on the remote host is prior to 2.1.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the templates/2k11/admin/category.inc.tpl script due to improper validation of the category and directory names before returning the input to users. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request, to execute arbitrary script code in a user |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 100789 |
| published | 2017-06-14 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100789 |
| title | Serendipity < 2.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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