SB2018080817 - Multiple vulnerabilities in auracms.opensource-indonesia.com auraCMS

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16338)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as change the administrator's password via admin.php?mod=users and subsequently add a page or menu, or submit a topic.

2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15199)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a Bukutamu -> AddGuestbook action.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• https://github.com/auracms/AuraCMS/issues/3
• https://github.com/auracms/AuraCMS/issues/1